Excavating the Intellectual Roots of Intelligent Design

There's a pair of matching, bookended myths about intelligent design -- one pertaining to its origin, the other to its purported demise. Darwinists claim ID goes back about as far as Michael Behe's 1996 book Darwin's Black Box and that a judge in Pennsylvania finally ruled it out as science in 2005. Therefore a lifespan of just under ten years. Even most dogs live longer than that.

We've pointed out before that judges -- even federal ones appointed by President G.W. Bush -- don't get to deci...