Intelligent Design?

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— Rich Bellon (@RichBellon) November 15, 201

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"Two billion years ago, our ancestors were microbes; a half-billion years ago, fish, a hundred million years ago, something like mice; ten million years ago, arboreal apes; and a million years ago, proto-humans puzzling out the taming of fire. Our evolutionary lineage is marked by mastery of change. In our time, the pace is quickening." Carl Sagan

The 8-minute version...
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More than a century and a half after the publication of Charles Darwin's ground-breaking book On the Origin of Species, the theory of evolution through natural selection has been tested and confirmed innumerable times. It is a cornerstone of modern biology. As the evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky observed, "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." And yet the teaching of evolution in schools continues to come under attack from creationists. Their arguments do not stand up to scrutiny, however. Moreover, the teaching of evolution is constitutionally protected in the U.S. Nevertheless, American science teachers still face considerable pressure to compromise their presentations on this fundamental concept. What is the best way to oppose religiously motivated threats to scientific thinking? Perhaps not surprisingly that, too, is a matter of debate. 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense... 50 Years Ago: Repeal of Tennessee’s “Monkey Law”... Should Science Speak to Faith?

Scientific American
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"If I were to give a prize for the best idea anyone ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of natural selection - ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein - because his idea unites the two most disparate features of our universe: the world of purposeless, meaningless matter in motion on the one side, and the world of meaning, purpose, and design on the other. He understood that what he was proposing was a truly revolutionary idea." Daniel Dennett

"The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question." Stephen Jay Gould