Intelligent Dogs

The film tells a relatively simple story of their friendship and rivalry as they discovered the excitement of ever-more challenging skating stunts - notably when they began riding the walls of empty pools during a Southern California drought - and began inspiring a generation of skaters who followed their lead.

that's from the NYT about the film Lords of Dogtown.

and interesting because just i was reading yesterday in the New Yorker about proponents of Intelligent Design:

Behe’s main claim is that cells are complex not just in degree but in kind. Cells contain structures that are “irreducibly complex.” This means that if you remove any single part from such a structure, the structure no longer functions. Behe offers a simple, nonbiological example of an irreducibly complex object: the mousetrap. A mousetrap has several parts -- platform, spring, catch, hammer, and hold-down bar -- and all of them have to be in place for the trap to work. If you remove the spring from a mousetrap, it isn’t slightly worse at killing mice; it doesn’t kill them at all.

of course those who believe in evolution (referred to as "scientists") point out that things can evolve for one purpose and then be adapted for another.

like, say, a swimming pool. empty because of a drought. why would that evolve or be created? an empty swimming pool? with complex curves and steep sides? it's totally useless unless... filled with water. but if you happen to have a skateboard and it exists...

boom. it's thrasher.