Of intelligent design: "This seemingly scientific, but basically flawed approach has been alluring to many non-scientists looking for a compromise position in the debate." I am tired of hearing that intelligent design is a position for non-scientists. To the contrary, here is a short list of highly respected scientists who support intelligent design or Biblical creationism, along with a sample of their credentials:

Jonathan Wells, Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkely; Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale Graduate School; senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Stephen Meyer, Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University. He has spoken at symposia at Cambridge, Oxford, Yale, Baylor, the University of Texas, and elsewhere.

Robin Collins, Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas in Austin; Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He has spoken at symposia and conferences at Yale, Concordia, Baylor, Stanford, and elsewhere, including a plenary address at the 2003 Russian-U.S. conference on "God and Physical Cosmology" held at Notre Dame. Served as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University.

Guillermo Gonzalez, Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Washington in Seattle. Assistant professor at Iowa State University; member of the International Astronomical Union and the American Scientific Affiliation.

You listed Michael Behe, but here he is anyway. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. He has served on the Molecular Biochemistry Review Panel of the Division of Molecular and Cell Biosciences at the National Science Foundation. He has also authored several dozen articles for such scientific journals as DNA Sequence, The Journal of Molecular Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Biopolymers, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

J.P. Moreland, Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Southern California. After earning a degree in chemistry from the University of Missouri, he was awarded the top fellowship for a doctorate in nuclear chemistry at the University of Colorado, but declined.

Walter Bradley, Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Texas at Austin. A professor of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University for twenty-four years, served as head of the department for four years. A fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, and also of the American Society for Materials and the American Scientific Affiliation. Author of The Mystery of Life's Origin, a devastating critique of naturalistic origin-of-life theories, with forward by Ph.D. biophysicist Dean Kenyon (author of Biochemical Predestination), who called the book "cogent, original, and compelling."

Allan Sandage, Ph.D. in stellar evolution from the California Institute of Technology, where he studied under Walter Baade. He is perhaps the greatest observational cosmologist in the world. He has served on the staff of the observatories at Mt. Wilson, Palomar, and the Carnegie Institute of Washington; discovered the quasar; and has been called "the grand old man of cosmology" by the New York Times. For a list of awards, see here http://phys-astro.sonoma.edu/brucemedalists/Sandage/index.html

Once again, this is only a sample. So please, Mr. Chapman and Mr. Hewlett, please stop trying to make out opponents of evolution to be incompetent in science.