Tuesday, June 27, 2006

David Brin On Intelligent Design

SF writer David Brin skewers Intelligent Design in this reductio ad absurdum piece in The Skeptic.

I doubt that the promoters of Intelligent Design really want to see a day come when every biology teacher says: “Okay, you’ve heard from Darwin. Now we’ll spend a week on each of the following: intelligent design, guided evolution, intelligent design of intelligent designers, evolution of intelligent designers, the Hindu cycle of karma, the Mayan yuga cycle, panspermia, the Universe as a simulation…” and so on.