From Ray Merewether
Douglas Axe of the Biologic Institute is far from the first to believe that bacteria had intelligent designers (16 December 2006, p 8). In the 17th century, New England settlers took it as a sign of divine providence that the Native Americans were dying of various diseases. Mark Twain in his Letters from the Earth similarly attributes a lot of bacterial misery to an intelligent designer.
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