Dear Playboy
July, 2006
Science vs. ReligionThe problem with teaching intelligent design in public schools is that it's not science (Faith & Reason, April). The hypothesis that "here a miracle occurs" isn't a scientific statement, so it can't be proved or disproved by the methods of science. ID compounds this problem by requiring a mind-boggling succession of miracles stretching across the four billion years of life on earth. In creating well over 100 million species (99 percent of them now extinct), the &quo...
