This is a really strange one from the creationist blog of the Discovery Institute. It’s titled The Other Intelligent Designer(s)?, and it was written by Geoffrey Simmons, described at the end as a Discoveroid fellow. Here are some excerpts, with bold font added by us for emphasis, and occasional Curmudgeonly interjections that look [like this]: It is readily apparent that life itself, and human beings in particular, were designed by an intelligent mind. [Yeah, readily apparent!] The digital information system found in every person’s genome, and all of the ramifications, are evidence enough. [For an idiot!] All of our complexities upon complexities upon complexities, portrayed vertically and laterally on graphs, could not have come about by accident over 4.54 billion years. And, notably everything reflects forethought. To say otherwise is to believe that the Emperor was wearing clothes. Now that, boys and girls, is how to start a serious scientific essay. Then Jeff says: Who thought of a clotting cascade just in case there’s bleeding? [The tooth fairy?] Who thought of an antibody system? Besides God, one can only consider extraterrestrials. That is, even remotely. [Yeah, it’s either YEHWEH or the Vulcans!] The latter group would need to have been…
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