If a god were the creator of the universe, "intelligent" design is hardly the description I'd use.
To start with he apparently sat in the dark for an infinite amount of time twiddling his thumbs, until 6000 years ago!
To say there is a large degree of order at the fundamental level is just wrong, and as a particle physicist, this professor you quote should know it.
There are 60 fundamental particles that i can think of off the top of my head:
36 quarks
6 "electrons"
6 neutrinos
W+/- and Z(0) bosons
photon
8 gluons
(Plus the Higgs' boson if it's observed at the LHC)
And if supersymmetry is correct there are more than double this amount.
To suggest that this huge collection of "building blocks" is the work of an intelligent mind is simply ridiculous.
Then we look at the way matter behaves at the quantum level. It beggars belief that an intelligent designer would create a universe that behaves in this way.
Maybe he sat there and said "hey Zeus, watch this, bet they can't figure THIS one out!"
And as for the "evidence" mentioned in the article, well it simply isn't there.
To start with he apparently sat in the dark for an infinite amount of time twiddling his thumbs, until 6000 years ago!
To say there is a large degree of order at the fundamental level is just wrong, and as a particle physicist, this professor you quote should know it.
There are 60 fundamental particles that i can think of off the top of my head:
36 quarks
6 "electrons"
6 neutrinos
W+/- and Z(0) bosons
photon
8 gluons
(Plus the Higgs' boson if it's observed at the LHC)
And if supersymmetry is correct there are more than double this amount.
To suggest that this huge collection of "building blocks" is the work of an intelligent mind is simply ridiculous.
Then we look at the way matter behaves at the quantum level. It beggars belief that an intelligent designer would create a universe that behaves in this way.
Maybe he sat there and said "hey Zeus, watch this, bet they can't figure THIS one out!"
And as for the "evidence" mentioned in the article, well it simply isn't there.
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
