Zero Cheers for Intelligent Design Creationism

In "Two Cheers for 'Intelligent Design,'" David Moulton revisits the Bush-era culture war over alternatives to Darwinism. He thinks ID's arguments should have been taken more seriously. I disagree.

Everything old is new again.

When I was working on my book about Christopher Hitchens, I took it for granted that the version of America’s culture war that gave rise to “New Atheism” was dead and gone and it was never coming back. The culture war itself isn’t going anywhere. But it’s not going to be fought over that particular terrain.

This week, the univ…