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Here's another little drive-by snarking at David Klinghoffer. I know ... but it's so easy and things are such in my life right now that I don't have the time or the energy to expend on anything more challenging at the moment.

Klinghoffer is out to defend his latest attempt to blame every bad thing that's happened in the last 150 years on Darwin. Having strayed from the friendly (and commentless) confines of the Discovery Institute's "blog" ("The misreporting of the evolution issue is one key reason for this site"), he is getting raked over quite well on his home turf.

But there's one little area I'd like to address:

This is a constant refrain of Klinghoffer's. For some reason, he seems to think that because something is put to bad use, that raises questions about its underlying truth.

Let's look at that. On September 11, 2001, two airliners were flown into the World Trade Center towers with much loss of life. A third was crashed into the Pentagon, also with a substantial death toll. What's more, all around the world, at this very moment, airplanes are delivering bombs and missiles that are killing people, quite often innocent women and children.

Is our first impulse to question the science of aerodynamics and to doubt that airplanes can fly?

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P.S. David, that isn't Darwin's tree you have up at your place. His is the one up there.
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