We Need You More Than Ever, Frank

PZ Myers inflicts on his hapless readership this really ugly article about a rich creationist. Couldn’t we have more posts about slimy invertebrates instead, please? Esp. before breakfast?

Anyway, here’s some of what the aforementioned Roy Abraham Varghese – the creationist, not the slimy invertebrate, I wouldn’t want to insult the latter – sez:

Information precedes its manifestation in matter,” he writes. Matter and energy are merely vehicles of all information in the known universe. “The next breakthrough is realizing that the foundation of it all is intelligence,” writes Varghese. “Implicit in all its phases of discovery is the greatest insight of modern science: Everything is intelligence.”

Uh huh. I couldn’t help rembering something Frank Zappa once said:

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

And extremely good evidence that Frank was right can be gleaned from the copious selection of Varghese’s and George Gilder’s nonsensical ideas in the article.