Derbyshire Dementia?

I see John Derbyshire is getting all bent out of shape about Intelligent Design again - "they don't do any science", etc. etc. I suppose if he says it often enough, people like Michael Behe might actually begin to think it's true.

It's sad that a mathematician can be so ignorant of the conclusions of his colleagues at the Wistar conference, where the chance beginning of life (and the current state of living things) was shown to be mathematically, statistically, and logically ... well, silly. And it's sad that his anti-ID fanaticism - probably stemming from a fear of ridicule - has prevented him from actually daring to read enough ID literature to discover his meme is entirely without basis.