From David Prichard
Your editorial “It’s still about religion” leaves me somewhat bemused (16 December 2006, p 5). Not because of its advocacy of “good science” over the intelligent design movement, but because of the individuals it refers to whose zealotry requires they play a game that might be called “I’m the king of the (intellectual) castle”.
In order to appear to have some mystical superiority, they contradict the bleeding obvious. To suggest that the complexity of existence is proof of intelligent design is a non sequitur.
Clearly, the opposite is true. Had some super intelligence designed everything, it would have been far simpler. It can be explained logically only by random (even chaotic) evolutionary events – unless, of course, the designer wasn’t all that intelligent.
Geraldton, Western Australia
