Sarah Palin: Intelligently Designed?

Of course, a lot of the American Old Right never wanted Alaska (or Obama's native Hawaii) in the Union at all, and on the fringes of that are people who want the old Confederacy or the Pacific North West out of the Union now. So she should clean up among them with her secessionism.

If her daughter is five months gone, then she is due in January. A birth on the same day as the inauguration? Wouldn't that just be ... well, wouldn't it just be?

But as for Intelligent Design, it seems to be a sort of Deism, and it therefore comes as no surprise that it is so popular in a country founded by Deists. Something that can vaguely be called "God" sets everything going, but then just leaves it alone, and therefore might as well not exist.

ID is an example of the arrogant streak among lawyers and scientists. Rather than ask the clergy assigned to the sorts of parishes or congregations that contain lots of lawyers and scientists, they have instead concocted this for themselves. But it's not really any better than "the survival of the fittest", also the work of philosophical and theological illiterates, and also regarded as such by people who know what they are talking about, no matter how religious in the case of ID, and no matter how atheistic in the case of "the survival of the fittest".

Cue the comments. From, I hope, both camps of those who are specialised to a point inconsistent with general education, who sincerely believe that having a PhD in anything automatically makes one an expert on everything, and who are completely unused to being told that it simply doesn't.

It simply doesn't.

But please, I implore you, spare me any reference to Oliver Kamm, the union-busting Times leader writer only employed because he is too rich to need to be paid, who fulfils the admittedly quite useful function of invariably being wrong and hopelessly ill-informed on absolutely every subject. And he has such on view on precisely that: absolutely every subject. Good for a laugh, I suppose. But not to be taken seriously. And certainly not to be cited favourably on here.