As Goes the countering of conservative propaganda so, apparently, goes the debunking of "intelligent design".
In the latest issue of New Scientist The physicist and author Lawrence Krauss, who has also been known to debate a creationist or two in his time, comments on the challenges of debunking pseudo-science with scientific facts. The thinly disguised creationists who now promote "intelligent design" as the latest alternative to evolutionary theory in our schools have apparently taken a page straight from the Rove playbook and successfully defined the debate by distorting the record: