Unpublished Letter to The Rocky Mountain News by Rebecca Merrill Groothuis

[It appears that they will not published the following letter, which nails the point in a sizzling and logical manner.]

Dear Editor:

Lisa Jones’s response (12-29-05) to Paul Campos’s editorial about intelligent design (ID) is so tiresomely typical of the non-arguments reflexively intoned in the attempt to discredit ID. Those who have concluded that ID is purely religious and utterly unscientific waste no time employing this conclusion as an unstated premise. From there, they are off and running—questions begging and insults flying. And after all the rabid rhetoric has been emitted, do we see any semblance of a logical argument as to why ID should be deemed unscientific? No. But this is precisely the point at issue in this debate, is it not?

Sincerely,
Rebecca Merrill Groothuis