Barrett Brown and Jon P. Alston, who appear only recently to have entered puberty judging by their obsession with sex, have just published Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, & The Easter Bunny (Cambridge House Press, 2007). I would like to share with you some quotes. The book is full of stuff like this ,which I trust we can use to advantage:
On ID proponents:
“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 — not of any moral objection on the pat of the addict, but rather out of embarrassment that anyone could be so darned bad at lying. … And the heroin addicts are the ‘prime movers,’ so to speak, behind Intelligent Design — they lie to others when they find it convenient, and speak truth only to each other. For the sake of clarity, let’s call these two hypothetical heroin addicts, ‘William Dembski’ and ‘Michael Behe.’†(pgs. 13, 16)
On creationists:
“Yahweh does indeed have a well-established tendency to test the faith of his followers, and discrediting the holy attempts of his most pious adherents to establish a young earth would certainly constitute why Henry Morris and his son John are such disingenuous, pudding-brained goofballs; Yahweh could do nothing more to discredit the creationist movement by creating its most well-known proponents, if not in His own image, then in the image of some moderately retarded, would-be con artist. Heck, I wouldn’t put it past him.” (pg. 75)
On Bonobo sex:
“In the beginning, there was the Logos, a term meaning “word,” derived from the Greeks and used by early Christians to indicate the Divine Word, or the mind of God made manifest. … The mind of God called for man to exist, and thus the Logos compels man to exist …And for some reason or another, the mind of God also called for female bonobo chimpanzees to settle disputes by rubbing their respective vaginas together to the point of orgasm. And so the Logos caused this to be the case, possibly while giggling, assuming that the Logos is indeed capable of giggling, which it most likely is not. (pg. 78)
On Dembski and Christianity:
“We’re going to have a lot of fun going through Dembski’s book, which should have been titled, A Smart Ass Wet Dream or something like that. But that’s not what it’s called. It’s called Intelligent Design, and it’s full of Christian theology. Now there’s a good metaphor.†(pg. 79-80)
“Dembski once wrote, ‘Predictive prophecies in Scripture are instances of specified complexity and signal information inputted by God as part of his sovereign activity within Creation.” So you know, get ready for all those murderous pseudo-locusts. I suggest wearing long sleeves. And I’m sure the world’s astronomers will be interested to see all those stars fall to Earth, as predicted in the Book of Revelations. I wonder if Dembski is aware that a single star is many orders of magnitude larger than our planet, and that the first start to ‘fall’ would destroy all life on earth before it even managed to ‘land.’ Gee, if I didn’t know better, I’d say the Book of Revelations was written by someone who had no fucking idea what he was talking about. ‘Instances of specified complexity and signal information inputted by God.’ Christ, what a piece of work.†(pg. 145)
This book takes the level invective, namecalling, and sexual obsession (while abnegating intellectual content) among our Darwinist critics to a new low. But the important question here is, can they go still lower? I’d like to encourage P. Z. Myers to try his hand at a full-length book treatment of ID.