Intelligent design was invented in a situation in which
Christians were unable to cope with Darwin’s theory of natural
selection. They could no longer explain man’s origin as created
according to the Image and Likeness of God (Genesis 1: 27: So
God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created
him; male and female he created them). They had to find another
reason, and since the nineteenth century was almost as proud of
science as the twentieth century, the reason had to be
scientific.   Since I read the God Delusion, I have been puzzled
about the passions that permitted and even moved Christian
fundamentalists to deny the evidence for evolution. To give a
concrete example from my own experience in Congregational
Church, the theory of Evolution is understood not surprisingly
against the background of a misinterpretation of Einstein’s
theory of relativity. The operative logic is that Einstein has
proved Newton’s equations to be “wrong.” By the same token,
somebody is, in the near future, going to