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Why would Salon go out of its way to print this?
For Salon to publish an article granting even a hint of credibility to the "intelligent design" ploy is unconscionable for a progressive publication. Those who cannot or will not accept the empirical consensus of science as the foundation of history and reality must be refused a seat at the table of public discourse.
Just as many scholars of the Holocaust will not actively debate Holocaust-deniers lest such a position be given an air of legitimacy, so too should we treat deniers of evolution by natural selection -- their position is no less intellectually and morally outrageous.