Summing it up neatly.

As reported by Amy Welborn.

"There’s a controversy in the United States [about evolution and creationism and "intelligent design"] because there is a lack of awareness of a thing called philosophy," said [Father] Fessio, whose Ignatius Press publishes Benedict’s books in English.

"Evangelicals and creationists generally lack it and Catholics have it," he said.

"When you look at the world and see what appears to be order and design, the conclusion that there is a designer is not a scientific conclusion, it’s a philosophical one."

"Intelligent design" theory, in my view, is a clumsy attempt to reconcile two opposing worldviews that are not worth reconciling because they are both fundamentally lacking.  It’s not that "evolutionism" (which I define here as the view that there is certainly no Designer and that the theory of evolution coupled with the collection of data is sufficient to explain everything important about life on Earth) lacks one thing which creationism supplies, and that creationism lacks something else which evolutionism can supply, so that all that’s necessary is to bring them together and cancel out contradictions.  No, what is needed is something that is different from either.

"Are you a Creationist or an Evolutionist?" is a loaded question that doesn’t deserve an answer, on par with "When did you stop beating your wife?"