"Ed Huntress" wrote

... As for Intelligent Design, let them try to
explain the lamprey eel or neocons.


"Intelligent design" is, at best, a metaphor -- like Adam Smith's "invisible
hand". The difference is that Adam Smith was not such an idiot as to
confuse metaphor with explanation. Otherwise, "Wealth of Nations" would
have been a much shorter book :-)

-- TP