Letter to the "Dispatch" on "Intelligent Design"

To the Editor,

Sometimes the proponents of “Intelligent design” are the best argument against it – as with recent letter-writer John Montgomery.

In this country one can believe in almost anything, and while that right isn’t necessarily well-protected in many “out-of-the-mainstream” areas, it certainly IS maintained when it comes to religion. I can establish “The Church of the Tooth Fairy” if I want, and all potential parishioners will be greeted with a smile.

If I’m made fun of because of my “crazy” religion, that is persecution and wrong. But if I insist on dental schools including the Tooth Fairy in its curriculum, resistance by professionals and others does not constitute persecution.

If we all truly were “intelligently designed,” we all would be able to differentiate between the “freedom of our religious belief” and the “freedom to impose our religious belief on others.” We would also be able to differentiate between “having our religious beliefs persecuted” and “having our desire to make others believe as we do thwarted.”

Some of us get it, and some of us don’t. Perhaps that indicates that some are more intelligently designed than others.

- Uke Man