“Dear Mr. Derbyshire—I read the stuff in the corner on NRO about

intelligent design and you not buying it and why. You say you believe in

God somewhere in there like Einstein did and whatnot. I’m sure I’m not the

first to ask, just thought I’d add my voice to the chorus, but could you

please tell us since we value what you say and have been doing so for years

now, Why you believe in God or what you mean by saying you believe in God,

or if you have already done so, direct us to where you have done it.”

It is no-one’s business but my own (and His) why I believe in God, so no, I

will not tell you.

And if there is any implication here (if there is not, I apologize for the

implication that there might be such an implication) that if I believe in

God, I darn well ought to believe in Intelligent Design Theory, well,

fiddlesticks. Millions of people believe in God who not only do not believe

in ID, but have never heard of it, and would not be interested in it if they

*did* hear of it. There are also some articulate and well-read men of the

cloth whose opinion of ID theory is as low as mine, though not necessarily

for the same reasons. Here is one such.