"Thought Pimp" is a scientist from Texas. Here's his first post:

Let's bring intelligent design into biology, and take the vague theory and refine it into mutually exclusive families of clearer hypotheses. Each of which we analyze for explanatory power, corroborating and disconfirming evidence, and so on.

And in the process, we will show that the Christian concept of God is scientifically false—we can say with a fair degree of scientific confidence that there is no god much like the God they want.

But of course, that will never happen. They'd accuse us of violating their boundary between "science" and "religion," and taking a "religious" stance. (Well, anti-religious, and in a sense they'd be right on that.) If we said the truth, which is that scientists know orthodox Christianity to be scientifically false, we'd be lynched.

First, it's pretty obvious that "Thought Pimp" is yet another scientist who hears "God" whenever someone says "design".

Second, from his comments about disproving the existence of God, I'm guessing that when he's talking about "refining intelligent design", he really means "tell us who the designer is".

To complete the set of stereotypic misunderstandings, how many are going to be surprised if Thought Pimp titles his next post, "Why Intelligent Design is a Threat to Science and Democracy"

(HT: Evolving Thoughts)