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Evolution News & Views: Is It Really Intelligent Design that has the Great Derb Worried?: "Is It Really Intelligent Design that has the Great Derb Worried? The Great Derb, John Derbyshire, has spoken. And again he's muddled things badly. This time he's got himself all in a twist over a response by Tom Bethell to his letter responding to a recent column by Bethell about last spring's ID debate at AEI. (whew!) He still can't understand the obvious differences between creationism and intelligent design, continually conflating the two and looking like an ill-informed crank. And the meandering rantings don't help. Derbyshire insists on equating intelligent design and creationism because a judge agrees. 'Intelligent Design is creationism. This has been proved to courtroom standards of evidence.' He would be well served to read Traipsing Into Evolution. Even thoughtful Darwinists understand that ID and creationism are simply two different things. Leonard Susskind, hardly a creationist or IDist, writes in his book The Cosmic Landscape: 'On one side are the people who are convinced that the world must have been created or designed by an intelligent agent with a benevolent purpose. On the other side are the hard-nosed, scientific types who feel certain that the universe is the product of impersonal, disinterested laws of physics, mathematics, and probability--a wo"