18 November 2005

A nice Op-Ed on evolution.

There are very few conservative commentators that I can stand to read regularly. Charles Krauthammer is one of them. I usually don't agree with him when it comes to the issues (his recent article on gas prices was an exeception), but his presentation is usually reasonable in tone and his arguments well-presented. That is much, much more than I can say for the bulk of the right-wing echo chamber.

His most recent column addressed the topic of Intelligent Design. The conclusion of the article is an absolutely beautiful description of why evolution is compatible with a theistic worldview:
How ridiculous to make evolution the enemy of God. What could be more elegant, more simple, more brilliant, more economical, more creative, indeed more divine than a planet with millions of life forms, distinct and yet interactive, all ultimately derived from accumulated variations in a single double-stranded molecule, pliable and fecund enough to give us mollusks and mice, Newton and Einstein? Even if it did give us the Kansas State Board of Education, too.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Before distributing plaudets to Dr. Krauthamer, you should be aware that he also publishes articles in Commentary Magazine, the mouthpiece of the neocons, which also publishes the antievolution crap of David Berlinski and the African Americans are intellectually inferrior crap of Charles Murray (of the Bell Curve infame).

TQA said...

My opinion of what Krauthammer writes is based on what he writes, not where he writes it.