Back in October of 2004 when the intelligent design debate was first heating up Wired Magazine wrote a feature article looking at the issues. The article is long, but it's a good read and still relevant three years later.

One of the main points of the article is the ID proponents look for debate and discussion since this creates an equal standing on the issue, but that's the issue.

"I'm not a PhD in biology," says board member Michael Cochran. "But when I have X number of PhD experts telling me this, and X number telling me the opposite, the answer is probably somewhere between the two."

An exasperated Krauss claims that a truly representative debate would have had 10,000 pro-evolution scientists against two Discovery executives. "What these people want is for there to be a debate," says Krauss. "People in the audience say, Hey, these people sound reasonable. They argue, 'People have different opinions, we should present those opinions in school.' That is nonsense. Some people have opinions that the Holocaust never happened, but we don't teach that in history."