William Dembski is a worthless lump of cells.

For those of you who don't know who William Dembski is, let me tell you.

William Dembski is a mathematician, theologian, "cdesign proponantsist", and one-time senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. He served as Ann Coulter's science advisor for her most recent laugh riot, Godless, and his biggest argument against the theory of evolution is that it's so unlikely that it may as well never have happened.

He has a problem with intellectual honesty, and he prefers to dig himself into deeper holes over admitting he was wrong.

To put it bluntly, I flush more academic integrity when I get home from work than he has in his whole body.

Not only that, but he's a monumental dick, to boot. But it's all in the name of glorifying God, so it's ok.

This post is about an event that took place earlier this year, which didn't make much news, but pisses me off whenever I remember it.

On March 3, 2006, a biologist from the University of Texas, named Eric Pianka gave a speech which basically said that the planet is overpopulated, and, historically speaking, we're waaay overdue for a plague, virus, or some other event that would drastically thin out the herd.

He went on to say that the ebola virus is particularly dangerous, that the human population all over the planet is just perfectly set up for a huge viral outbreak that would kill off 90% of the human population, that a lower human population would be a good thing for the planet, that people need to realize that the planet isn't something we're meant to have control over, but rather something we need to live in harmony with, and that basically, most of us are doomed.

I don't really know how likely this event is, but I do recognize that we're far too overpopulated, that we haven't had a massive catastrophe in a while, and that people are too cocky about their place in the world.

Well, word of the talk got to Dembski (via some douchebag named Mims, who basically argued that it could never happen because God wouldn't let it), and he posted a nice response to it on his haven of ignorance, Uncommon Descent.

Basically, Dembski decided that Pianka wasn't making a prediction, but, in fact, he was telling the world of his sinister plot to manufacture a much deadlier strain of the ebola virus, introduce it to the population, and watch with glee from his subterranean bunker as humanity crumbles into near-nothingness. Then, when the dust has cleared, and the rubble has been swept away, Pianka was to emerge onto the scene as humanity's savior and lead the people of the world to a new era of prosperity, Satan-worship, and evil-ution.

Well, William Dembski, the great Christian Hero of Righteousness took matters into his own hands to stop the evil Pianka, and he notified the Department of Homeland Security that Pianka was a potential bioterrorist.

Pianka has since been interviewed by the FBI, who found nothing worthwhile.

As for Dembski, I can only hope he'll see the light. I doubt he will, though.

- Nomenclature Generator Lite