Elsewhere in this issue, John Derbyshire attacks the theorists of "intelligent design.".

* Elsewhere in this issue, John Derbyshire attacks the theorists of "intelligent design." What they are doing, he says, is not science. That may be so. But it is also true that a lot of the resistance to evolutionary theory is a result of Darwinians' straying into theology. Too many of its popularizers have made expansive claims about evolution's allegedly atheistic implications. If evolution excludes the possibility that God either guides the process or set it in motion in order to yield the human race, then most Christians will not sign on. But no scientific theory actually could exclude that possibility, or even affect its plausibility. To pretend otherwise is a conceit. Meanwhile, we see no good reason for the curricular choices of Pennsylvania school districts to be a national political issue involving the federal courts.