Quote #19

Notwithstanding the quasi-religious enthusiasms of ultra-Darwinists, their own understanding of theology is a combination of ignorance and derision, philosophically limp, drawing on cliches, and happily fuelled by the idiocies of the so-called scientific creationists.

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