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I ask Thompson why this battle matters so much to him. He pauses, putting his hands together as if in prayer. "If you are nothing but an accident of nature, then nothing you do is dependent on objective truth," he says. "You can set your own rules. There are no set moral codes."
What do rules have to do with whether this universe and its life forms were the result of evolution or a Big Man in the Sky? Religious right nuts set their own rules all the time, i.e., Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Thompson doesn't believe in intelligent design, he believes in authoritarianism.
"That's why, even if 100 million scientists say we are unplanned, that we're just purposeless beings in this universe, the general population won't buy it. And neither will I."
What does being unplanned have to do with having a purpose? I've never heard any scientist make this claim.
I believe that I have a purpose, but I also believe in evolution, not creationism and not "intelligent design."
