CBEB’s

With all the excitement over the PZ Myers/Geoff Simmons debate, this little morsel by Denyse O’Leary managed to fly under the radar.

The universe is clearly fine-tuned for life, and - as I like to say - if God didn’t do it, his replacement from the celestial temp agency is pretty Good. If Richards made that clear, it is a nice change from the “no-conflict-between-science-and-religion” piffle we so often hear.

Piffle? Yes, because ,as another friend notes, in much of academic life today the terms are decided in advance by functional atheists - you know, facts support atheism but feelings support theism, and we all respect each other’s feelings … UNTIL any theist actually cites facts that support his view. Then watch the temperature drop 50 degrees Celsius in, like, a second..

Poor Denyse O’Leary. She fancies herself a writer and journalist, but she’s never learned to write. Never mind that she can’t even properly write an ellipsis. Never mind that she insists on using the word “like” as if her readership consists of 13 year-old girls still stuck in the year 1983. No matter what Denyse O’Leary writes, it’s a given that someone else has said it before, only more coherently. A few years back, someone summed up Denyse’s thoughts in one sentence.

We’ve been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture.

At this point, I’m beginning to think Denyse is just pulling our collective leg. Whose side is she on, anyway? If she’s trying to make the Intelligent Design movement look even more ridiculous than it already appears in the public eye, she’s succeeding wildly. Dembski, Wells, Behe and all the others might be screaming, “ID is science!” from the mountain tops, but Denyse isn’t going to be happy until our flu shots are made with water from Lourdes.