If you want to see an excellent example of how to derail creationist idiocy, read this book. If you don't want to see one, read this book anyway - it will be good for you.
It has become obvious that debates relying on actual science do not work on people like Behe, Dembski, et al - they simply disagree with it, dismiss it, don't like it and prefer to make up their own (highly spurious) version of it. Instead, try the approach taken by the authors of this book:
"This will not be a polite book. Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession, and the leaders of the so-called "Intelligent Design" movement, as we shall see, are so incredibly dishonest that they could cause a veteran heroin addict to blush..."
In six short, visciously funny and easy-to-read chapters, Brown and Alston do to Creationism and the ID movement what Stetson Kennedy did to the Ku Klux Klan (See "Freakonomics" by Levitt and Dubner for an overview of how Kennedy ruined the Klan's reputation by joining them and leaking all of their dumb secret codes and passwords to the writers of a radio show 'Adventures of Superman' - "converting precious knowledge into ammunition for mockery")
Mockery is the key word here, but not the dishonest mockery of the kind so often engaged in by Dembski - 'Flock of Dodo's' has no need to sink to lies since the creationists' own words and ideas are more than enough to beat them with.
The book starts with a quick introduction to the ID folks (the above quotation about politeness (lack of) comes from this chapter) and the man-on-the-street's idea of it as exemplified by William Buckingham, the now infamous ex Dover school board member.
Moving on through Chapter 2, 'A Brief History of Nonsense', we come to chapter 3 - 'Dinosaurs and Exclamation Marks' where the young earth creationists are exposed to the light - Henry Morris, "...disingenuous dumbass,"; Ken Ham, "...just falls back on miracles,"; and others along with a wonderful section on 'Flood Geology'.
Willaim Dembski does a fantastic job of beating himself up in chapter 4 - 'Logos and Lesbianism' (wonderful title...) with a little help from an extended analogy to the song 'Uptown Girl'. Right there alongside him is Michael Behe exposing his own ignorance.
Chapter 5 - 'Constantine vs the Enlightenment' may test how broad minded Christian readers can be - as the authors stated, this is not a polite book. It beats up Christianity by way of Constantine, the Wedge strategy (the full text, so you know that nothing is out of context), the Discovery Institute and more of Behe's fun and games.
With regard to Behe, it was interesting to find myself swearing out loud as I was reading about the mendacity of the man - would you BRAG that your book had been peer reviewed by no less than five reviewers (the usual number is two) if, in fact, there were only four reviewers - three of whom panned the book, forcing you to find a different publisher with lower standards?
Chapter 6 - 'So You've Decided to Take a Stand For Science!' The authors say, "..if you're truly keen on fulfilling your patriotic duty to protect the Nation of the Enlightenment from the Legions of Tomfoolery, then you'd better bone up on the movers and shakers of the anti-evolution movement. To this end, I've prepared the following guide to some of the nation's most misguided medievalists." As you would expect, an overview of the usual suspects then follows.
You should not, however, get the idea that the whole book is simply ridicule and insults. If that were the case, I admit that I would still find the book funny but I wouldn't be giving it four stars. The book earns its rating because the necessary details are there (even if there are not so many as I might like), the facts are there, the arguments and the counter arguments are there. Ridicule is simply the appropriate response!
The assault on science that the creationist/ID movement represents is serious - this book amply demonstrates, however, that their arguments are not.