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"By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people." - Romans 16:18b

So yesterday I was watching Larry King, or well he was on the TV while I was eating dinner, and he had as his guest Bill Maher (Host of HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher"). And for who knows what reason, Larry asked to get Bill's view of evolution vs. intelligent design. Here's a bit of the transcript:

KING: It's no more -- it's -- intelligent design now replaces the other word?

MAHER: It's creationism by another name...

And it's like this, with intelligent design, it's such a, it's such a, you know, around the back end way of expressing an idea, which they -- just be honest and say, we prefer to believe in the fairy tale. We prefer to believe in the fairy tale that God created the world in six days.

I mean, what does that mean, intelligent design? It means that apparently, the world is so complicated that there are things about it we don't understand, so it must be invented by somebody -- let's call him Jesus' dad -- who understands things we don't. But it's like saying, we don't know how those monoliths got onto Easter Island, so we're going to say aliens brought them.

It's not rational. It's not smart. But it's more comforting. Just say that. You want to be comforted.

Now the extraordinary thing about Mr. Maher's argument is that, unfortunately for him, he doesn't even know what Intelligent Design is (although he tries to define it). And this is obvious because he says that advocates of the movement "believe in the fairy tale that God created the world in six days." And any single person who has ever even read one thing about the Intelligent Design movement is that the science involved does not refute the idea that the universe (notice Bill says "world") is billions of years old, nor that the Big Bang happened. ID supports those theories, knowing that the first chapter in Genesis is written in a poetic (not poetic, but i can't remember the word, some type of hebrew literary device) account of creation, providing the fact that there is only 1 God, he created everything, he created man in his own likeness, etc.

Too bad Bill Maher likes to talk about things he doesn't know anything about, because for the rest of the show why should anyone take his points seriously? Or read his book? Lame.