Intelligent debate?

The Southpark Republicans are having a cow over Bush's remarks today regarding teaching Intelligent Design. Here and here are two examples.

Leave it to Jeff at Protein Wisdom to state the obvious truth:

"I nevertheless do believe that addressing the field of ID theory in science classes provides a perfect opportunity to show how ID and evolution do not necessarily contradict one another, and that—if evolution is taught properly—the controversy itself disappears, except as a propaganda tool ginned up either by creationists or materialists who like to use it as a rhetorical club against their ideological opponents."