The breathtaking stupidity and dishonesty of the magical intelligent design creationists. I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.

Assholes for the Magic Jeebus Man used to call magical creationism "creationism" which means "The Magic Man Did It".

Then they called magical creationism "creation science" which means "The Magic Man Did It".

Then they called magical creationism "intelligent design" which means "The Magic Man Did It".

This was written by a famous paleontologist back when the morons for Jeebus called their childish anti-science fantasy "creation science".

Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage—good teaching—than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?
-- Stephen Jay Gould

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Who is Mike Toreno? I looked it up.

Mike Toreno is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears as a main character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (set in 1992). Toreno is an undercover government agent from a "government agency", most likely the CIA, who disguises himself as a drug dealer and one of the co-leaders of the Loco Syndicate.

What the fuck is this fictional character doing here? Somebody called himself "Mike Toreno" when he wrote a brilliant explanation of the dishonesty and breathtaking stupidity of the stupid fucking assholes who call magical creationism "intelligent design". I call it "magical intelligent design creationism".

By the way Dembski used to work for the extremely dishonest Christian Creationist Discovery Institute also known as Crackpot Central. Their goal is to dumb down the teaching of evolution in America. Science makes know-nothing crackpots cry.

Here is it, the best quote of my very long list of favorite quotes:

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ID creationism is misrepresented by its adherents, not its critics.

The various statements of what ID creationism is are simply obfuscations of the following argument:

I don't understand the reason for X phenomenon. Therefore X phenomenon originated by magic.

For example, take the contention that the bacterial flagellum could not have originated through a step by step process. That's an obfuscation of the true argument, which is "I don't understand how the bacterial flagellum could have originated through a step by step process."

The response, of course, is: Well, maybe you not understanding something doesn't mean it can't be understood. There are other reasons why you might not understand something. Maybe you're just stupid.

Dembski gave some talk in Oklahoma, and he got totally pwned. He talked about the bacterial flagellum, and some guy in the audience, during the question and answer session, said, I can explain how the bacterial flagellum could have originated through a step by step process, and did it. Of course, then Dembski wanted more steps. No matter how many steps you present, the ID creationist wants more. This is a slight variation of the ID creationist argument, and reads as follows:

I won't admit that X phenomenon could have originated through natural means. Therefore, X phenomenon must have originated by magic.

And the answer, of course, is: Well, maybe you're just a liar.

The idea that proponents of ID creationism have been discriminated against is based on a misconception - namely, that every idea is of equal merit. ID creationists aren't able to gain acceptance for their ideas not because of philosophical resistance, discrimination, or conspiracy, but because their ideas are stupid. I mean, when a real scientist explains phenomena that an ID creationist says is unexplainable, is the ID creationist still entitled to a respectful hearing for his claim?

ID creationism adherents believe in ID creationism because they haven't considered, or don't want to consider, the possibility that they're just retarded. Well, it's time for them to consider it.

-- Mike Toreno