Domenico Bettinelli asks:
I can understood the secular science antagonism to intelligent design, but I can’t understand the antagonism from Catholics and other Christians.

Much the same question is asked regularly on the usual kind of blog, where inevitably more heat than light is generated (and, of course, God began by creating light). Here's the Catholic [...]

A commenter made some interesting comments on a previous post, which I have moved up to the main part of the blog, so that I can answer them here.

A bevy of Nobel prize winners has sent a letter to the Kansas State Board of Education, to plead the case for not teaching Intelligent Design (ID) in schools. Now I think that the claims of ID proponents can be usefully defeated on the field of science, to the benefit (at least) of science. But [...]

The blog Unapologetic Catholic has taken to task a priest publishing in the blog SoDakMonk over the perennially recurring topic of evolution, of the intelligent design (ID) variety. The priest has replied firmly, including a posting replete with references to the usual ID articles and books.
Such "discussions" occur frequently enough on the internet, and are [...]

The popular-science blog The Loom has posted a confusing response to a not very clearly phrased poll on evolution recently conducted by the Gallup Poll organization. The poll, which the Gallup organization has been doing periodically for several decades, asked about 1000 people some questions on issues related to evolution. On one question, people were [...]

The recent dating of some hominid remains (Homo floresiensis) in eastern Indonesia to 18,000 years ago has brought out some strange reactions, particularly that of Desmond Morris. He begins:
The discovery of a new species of human poses exciting questions about who we are.

But it is not clear why this should be. Exactly the same questions [...]