Article: Editor Explains Reasons for 'Intelligent Design' Article

There's this article about an evolutionary biologist siding on the idea of "intelligent design" as the cause and principle of life as how we know it.

You can read the full article in
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081801680.html?nav=E8

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Evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg made a fateful decision a year ago.

As editor of the hitherto obscure Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Sternberg decided to publish a paper making the case for "intelligent design," a controversial theory that holds that the machinery of life is so complex as to require the hand -- subtle or not -- of an intelligent creator.

Within hours of publication, senior scientists at the Smithsonian Institution -- which has helped fund and run the journal -- lashed out at Sternberg as a shoddy scientist and a closet Bible thumper.