Laughing Coyote
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Secretary of Health and head of the genome project Francis Collinshas shown in his book The Language of God that intelligent Design is not the correct Christian response to atheistic materialism
There is definitely a lot of hidden political and economic agendas behind it. For example, reading some of their websites way back, I found there was stuff indicating an interest in undoing the endangered species act and generally make open house on exploitation of the ecosphere. Fisheries at that time was was being associated with it. Generally it also has to do with transferring scientific authority to a textual one, which then can be interpreted as wished.
If you think of Jesus, he was an iconoclast, against exploitation, and probably more than most of the Hebrew prophets he not only knew the Hebrew scripture but criticized slavish following of it as was being promoted by the Pharisees and other sycophants for the provincial government. It's curious that Christianity took over the Torah as their foundational book, except perhaps that early Christianity was a Jewish sect. I don't think Jesus would have had any problem with Darwin. Maybe it is that a major proportion of followers of prophets never catch up to the position of those prophets, taking them and their metaphors literally and inflexibly, or their minds became captured by people who twisted the prophecy, such as the Roman Paul. This goes for secular philosophers and prophets as well, such as many followers of Descartes, Marx, etc.