Skeptic magazine points out that the argument in favor of teaching alternatives to Darwinian evolution is, in fact, a scientific argument: "truth" should have to prove itself in the open marketplace of ideas. Fair enough. Let the competition begin! As long as Intelligent Design supporters are willing to share the limelight, that is. Jokes like the Flying Spaghetti Monster aside, serious philosophers and cosmologists have been contemplating the origins of life for millenia.

(Link by way of Chuck Russell.)