Daniel Dennett provides an excellent demolition of so-called intelligent design: “Since there is no content, there is no ‘controversy’ to teach about in biology class. But here is a good topic for a high school course on current events and politics: Is intelligent design a hoax? And if so, how was it perpetrated?”

The one thing his New York Times op-ed doesn’t deal with is the embarrassment of the Times’s own “even-handed” coverage of ID in the previous week.