You did what with my rib?

People, it's time for to get politicational. Well, actually, it's primarily about a website with an open letter to the Kansas School Board, that by now, everybody and their mom has heard of. It has been featured in the Spiegel, the Washington Post and the NY Times. All in the past week. So it's way overdue I jump on the bandwagon, before it gets even more crowded on there. Maybe they'll get a second car or something though, who knows.
Basically the letter ridicules attempts to teach intelligent design alongside evolution in science classes. What's intelligent design? Nothing more than biblical Creationism screaming that it's scientific theory, in order to be taught in classrooms. Science classrooms. Of course they try to distance themselves from biblical connections, but who are they fooling? So let's not even argue about that part of it (after all, the explicitly stated greater goal is to bring more Christianity into society). Also, let's not even argue about the lack of science actually involved with intelligent design. Let it suffice to say that using claims that can never be proven wrong or right to undermine one's "scientific" findings, has nothing to do with science.
Science is about trying to understand the world around us by means of finding regularities and laws, by looking at what we have as measurable evidence. Gravity exists, and if you like it or not, objects accelerate at 9,81 m/s² when being dropped on planet Earth. The question of why this happens, will eventually become a philosophical one. And evolution really is no different. Of course the evidence is less tangible than things falling down, but that's not really what I intend to talk about. What I find most ludicrous in this whole thing is the way the whole debate is being artificially constructed.
The so-called controversy only exists because ID-"scientists" started ranting and raving about it like some kind of madperson. But actually, there is no debate about the validity of evolution within the scientific community at the moment. People are merely trying to find answers to questions that remain unanswered. Yet exactly because of these unanswered questions, ID people say that the whole thing is bogus, and that, how convenient, ID must be true. Why are these people not getting laughed at? It seems that as long as you scream about something loud enough, you will eventually be heard.
You know what, I don't even feel like writing this anymore. I just wanted to express how ridiculous I find this constructed and artificial debate. I have no problem with Creationism being taught in philosophy classes, that's exactly where they belong. And since the religious wing is so interested in presenting all sides of an argument, let's not forget the many stories from throughout the world, as well as the works of Nietzsche and Kant. What do you think?
Okay, let's get back to the things that made this blog such a roaring success.