ID argues, supposedly on purely scientific grounds, that the complexity of life, especially at the cellular level, points to an Intelligent Designer. It's adherents won't call that designer God, but the conventional wisdom is that Christians can only be pleased if ID gains traction. But that's not necessarily so, though ID certainly has its Christian cheerleaders, and they aren't all fundamentalists.

[Christoph Schoenborn] conceded that Pope John Paul II said in 1996 that evolution was "more than just a hypothesis" (a statement science writer Michael Shermer once paraphrased as "evolution happened -- deal with it"). But the cardinal also argued that this "rather vague and unimportant" papal pronouncement must be read in light of John Paul's comment 11 years earlier that "the evolution of living beings ... presents an internal finality which arouses admiration [and which] obliges one to suppose a Mind which is its inventor, its creator."

Is acceptance of ID (and rejection of Darwinism) really required by the basic belief contained in the Apostles' Creed?: "I believe in God ... creator of Heaven and Earth"? It all depends, as Bill Clinton might say if he were a theologian, on what the definition of "creator" is.