The New York Times' big series about evolution and creationist design is by turns horrifying and hilarious—hilarious in the sense of "Oh my god they really did run a 'Views on Shape of Earth Differ' article"—but I don't know which word to use to classify this little paragraph:

Together, [the intelligent design hucksters] have mounted a politically savvy challenge to evolution as the bedrock of modern biology, propelling a fringe academic movement onto the front pages and putting Darwin's defenders firmly on the defensive.

Yes, those creationists must have just magically appeared on the front pages, all by themselves!