Salman Rushdie, you rock my world.

[go_team]

"Intelligent design, an idea designed backward so as to force the antique idea of a Creator upon the beauty of creation, is so thoroughly rooted in pseudoscience, so full of false logic, so easy to attack that a little rudeness seems called for."

Kick ass. Hopefully this entry about this article and my post to del.icio.us will remind me to buy some of this man's books so he can have a few more pennies of royalty money. Also, there's always his interview/conversation with Terry Gilliam on the Lost in La Mancha DVD special features, which y'all should check out if you haven't seen it.

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[quizro.livejournal.com]

Drag! I'd hoped I could be on the side of both science and religion, but apparently that's not possible.

Um...I'll pick...okay, which one is shirts and which one is skins?

[leech.livejournal.com]

I think he's going a little too far with this:

It is among the truths believed to be self-evident by the followers of all religions that godlessness is equivalent to amorality and that ethics requires the underpinning presence of some sort of ultimate arbiter, some sort of supernatural absolute, without which secularism, humanism, relativism, hedonism, liberalism and all manner of permissive improprieties will inevitably seduce the unbeliever down immoral ways.

That's not quite true. Unless by "followers of all religions" he means "some followers of most religions". (Or, most likely, "dogmatic followers of Abramic religions".)