Evolution - 1, Intelligent Design - HA!

Woo-hoo! WAPO article covers a powerful body blow from real science into the doughy gut of junk science Intelligent Design:

If Darwin was right, for example, then scientists should be able to perform a neat trick. Using a mathematical formula that emerges from evolutionary theory, they should be able to predict the number of harmful mutations in chimpanzee DNA by knowing the number of mutations in a different species' DNA and the two animals' population sizes.

"That's a very specific prediction," said Eric Lander, a geneticist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., and a leader in the chimp project.

Sure enough, when Lander and his colleagues tallied the harmful mutations in the chimp genome, the number fit perfectly into the range that evolutionary theory had predicted.

The full article is long but w-e-l-l worth reading, printing and taking into work in case you get the opportunity to stuff it down (or up) some ID fanatic's well, woo-hoo!