Intelligent Design - Brief Article

National Review, Jan 22, 2001 by Richard Brookhiser

Christmas, Ramadan, and Hanukkah all overlapped at the end of 2000, with each other and with the peak retail season, raising the question of what a saint would make of Moss. Buddha preached against the stimulation of desire; the Semitic faiths are subject to spasms of iconoclasm; Malcolm Muggeridge liked to quote a line of St.

Teresa of Avila, comparing the world to a second-class hotel. That strikes me as the attitude of a second-class guest. The world is full of sweet things, like moss. If the Creator made them with such attention to detail, a creature may do likewise.