Russia needs intelligent thinking, not intelligent design

I read Babu G. Ranganathan’s article in Pravda entitled Understanding Intelligent Design with mixed feelings. On the one hand, it’s nice to see free speech and a free press continue to develop in Russia. I greatly admire Pravda for having led the way. Everyone has a right to express opinions, even religious zealots and throw backs to the middle ages. Everyone has the right to be completely wrong again and again, even those who desperately cling to silly old ideas that comfort them and justify bigotry and sexism. I think even neo-fascists have the right to voice their loathsome ideology. But on the other hand, some ideas are downright dangerous and if they catch on, the world will be a much darker place. Intelligent design, which has been rightly ridiculed as “creationism in a tuxedo”, is, in my opinion, just that sort of ilk. Of course, the answer is that even the worst ideas should get a full hearing. Truth will out, as the British like to say, and I applaud Pravda for having the courage and wisdom to print everyone’s ideas.

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Although Ragnanathan’s article is about five pages long and sounds very scientific in places, it doesn’t contain much more than the same tired argument over and over again. Basically, he argues that even a single cell is so complex that it couldn’t possibly have happened all at once, all by itself. Such complexity obviously requires a creator. Well, of course that silly argument shouldn’t fool even a five year old because it doesn’t solve the problem. If a single cell is so complex that it needs a creator, then god, who not only thought up the idea of a cell, but allegedly listens to every prayer and every thought of every one of the six billion people on the planet, who keeps track of every hair on all our heads, every sparrow, and every bit of matter in the universe, must be infinitely MORE complex than a single cell! So where did god come from? Far from solving the problem, Ragnanathan’s “god “solution has made it much worse!! If Ragnanathan’s logic can’t imagine even a single cell popping in out of nowhere, how in the name of all wonder can it even entertain for a split second the possibility of god? That’s it for Ragnanathan. Eight ball in the side pocket!

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