Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.