Received this email from John Carlson on the topic of Intelligent Design. Thanks, John, for your thoughts:

Isn’t it ironic that one of the best arguments against Intelligent Design — at least as far as the concept might be applied to the structure and workings of the individual human brain — is the fact that some otherwise “intelligent” people say that Intelligent Design doesn’t exist? On second thought, perhaps this is more paradoxical than ironic. Maybe it’s just dumb.

It seems to me that even rudimentary observations of reality, combined with a measure of common sense, indicate that some form of Intelligent Design must be operating behind the scenes to result in the centro-complexity of the world in which we exist. It is a created complexity that flies in the face of laws of entropy that seem to apply to the universe in general.

Darwinian evolutionary theory, itself, is riddled with paradoxes and holes so big that the Missing Link could drive a truck through them. You know, the truck that sprang forth from a random explosion at a junkyard caused by lightning hitting an old 55-gallon barrel of amino acids, worn-out alternators and old spark plugs.

BTW: I think I saw the Missing Link driving that truck in traffic the other day. It was talking on a cell phone and had the bass-booster cranked up.