Father Ayala against "Intelligent" Design

This is a good link (via John Derbyshire and The Corner), to Dominican priest and biologist Francisco Ayala's latest demolition of "Intelligent" Design. I particularly like this:

"But American folk-Catholicism has absorbed an anti-evolution flavor from the surrounding evangelical Protestant culture. When he taught introductory biology at UCI, Ayala had Catholic students as well as Protestants coming to him to say, "I'll write the answer you want on the exam, but my faith forbids me to believe what you teach." To the Catholics, Ayala would simply say, "Ask your parish priest," with consistently satisfactory results."

In The Corner (no permalinks), Derb, English by birth, notes that ID is almost entirely an American heresy. Perhaps this is why.