Visa debatter i USA ter sig helt barocka från ett svenskt perspektiv. Dit hör debatten om att i skolorna lära ut intelligent design, idén att bl a människan är så fiffigt konstruerad att fiffigheten i sig motbevisar evolutionsteorin och stödjer idén om Gud som en intelligent designer.

Ett av de roligare inläggen i denna debatt hittade jag här av journalisten David Smillie.

Why would an intelligent designer equip each of us with an appendix — an organ whose sole purpose is to become infected and periodically explode? If this was Intelligent Design, then it implies the designer hates us the way many interior designers hate the people who actually live in their creations.

Men ännu roligare är förmodligen websiten som beskriver sig som "Satirical critique of the intention of the Kansas school board to teach intelligent design" och som därför lanserat det flygande spaghetti monstret. I ett öppet brev till  Kansas skolstyrelse har de skrivit:

Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.

Med sådan argumentation, vem behöver Dawkins?

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