Malignant design

I was reading an old article about the American government and its attitude to science. In particular, it mentioned the increasingly prevalent notion that "intelligent design" is an acceptable alternative to the theory of evolution. The Bush government claims that all alternatives should be taught in school so that people can be informed about the issue. Chomsky, being the clever boy that he is, then proposes the concept of "malignant design" for which there is more (empirical) evidence than intelligent design and possibly even evolution. This is obviously facetious, but I like the idea of going to some redneck town in the US and A and teaching the book of Genesis one day, then Darwin's evolutionary theory on the second day and coming in on the third and telling the kids that they were all created by our Dark Lord Satan to spread evil around the world.

I wish somebody would do that.