As I sit here, I'm reading a number of articles on 'Intelligent Design'. This is one of those fustrating issues where people on both sides are arguing semantics instead of pointing out what something really is.

1) Sorry those on the right, Intelligent Design is NOT a scientific theory.
2) Sorry those on the left, Intelligent Design is a way for those with religious beliefs can reconcile them with scientific discoveries. It is, by nature, anti-atheist and will remain that way because...
3) Atheists cannot dispute the theory, no matter how hard they try and ridicule it.

Yes, I have always believed in what is now called Intelligent Design since 1st grade when I first started hearing about the Theory of Evolution in science class. It wasn't even a 'doctrine' yet, but it has always been what I've believed. There is absolutely no place where there are infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters typing Shakespeare. That's the kind of hokey randomness the atheists want us to believe. I'm sorry, but the universe has way too many 'laws' that cannot have been created randomly at the spur of the moment.

But a number of advocates of Intelligent Design want it taught in school. Uh, sorry, but Intelligent Design is something that honestly needs to be taught in church, not school. Not that I agree with what is currently taught in school, because I have also believed from the start that atheism, though it claims to be the absence of religion, is a religion itself because of that. Because you cannot prove one way or another that it is right. Just like any religion cannot be proven it is technically right until you die and you discover which religion is correct...but since you're dead, you can't really come back and tell us which religion is correct barring phony parlor tricks (which, since phony, won't tell you anything anyways).

So the resolution to this entire thing is for both sides to back off. Back off pushing Intelligent Design as something to be taught in schools, and back off attacking Intelligent Design with insults like the 'Flying Spaghetti Monster'. Teach Intelligent Design in Bible study class in church, and the decline of religion amongst youth may get reversed. But if both sides continue down the same path, then nothing is going to get accomplished.

Until you die, then you will find out the truth.

Oh, and atheists: if you are going to support the Muslim extremists, you may want to reconsider your vocal comments about 'Flying Spaghetti Monsters'. You see, that's an insult to Islam as well as Christianity, if not moreso. To the extremists, that's a death sentence which only serves for you to find out more quickly the truth than you probably want to know.