Intelligent design debate roils on

Editor's Note: Our trio of articles in the Feb. 28, 2005 issue (References 1, 2, and 3) on the debate surrounding intelligent design generated a great deal of mail. Below is a sampling of the various opinions.

In your Feb. 28, 2005, issue, Richard Gallagher proposes that scientists promote the teaching of religious ideology in public-school science classes,1 an illegal activity. In a display of chest-beating that would make any silverback [gorilla] envious, Gallagher says it is an "outstanding opportunity to exchange views with the naysay-ers" and that he longs for the sort of "full-blooded public debate" that we here in Ohio have engaged in for more than three years now. But we are not, as he claims, panicking, afraid "a generation will be brain washed." We're afraid our children won't be taught science, because that's exactly what's happening. I agree, "Scientists should go out of their way to support ...