If you believe in god, you're an idiot...

[Messianic]

Anthony Flew, former Atheist

http://www.biola.edu/antonyflew/flew-interview.pdf

FLEW: I think that the most impressive arguments for God’s existence are those that are
supported by recent scientific discoveries. I’ve never been much impressed by the kalam
cosmological argument, and I don’t think it has gotten any stronger recently. However, I think
the argument to Intelligent Design is enormously stronger than it was when I first met it.


FLEW: (...) It seems to me that Richard Dawkins constantly overlooks the fact that
Darwin himself, in the fourteenth chapter of The Origin of Species, pointed out that his whole
argument began with a being which already possessed reproductive powers. This is the creature
the evolution of which a truly comprehensive theory of evolution must give some account.
Darwin himself was well aware that he had not produced such an account. It now seems to me
that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and
enormously powerful argument to design

This doesn't mean people are young-earth creationists - just because they're open to the idea of intelligent design. Anyone who's spent any real time debating or reading the academics in the field don't waste their time insulting people - they get right to the crux arguments. So get to them - and don't degrade others for having a belief you don't understand, particularly if you're not getting to the facts yourself, or perhaps don't really know them at all.