There's no escaping hatred of the scientific process. Even Berkeley now has a creationist club, although it's disguised as an "intelligent design and evolution awareness (IDEA)" group. Apparently, this club is hosting a talk by intelligent design tele-evangelist William Dembski here in a couple weeks. Dembski, you may know, is a mathematician (with little-to-no training in actual biology) who's out to prove his thesis of "specified complexity." I am predicting one of two possible scenarios:

• It'll be an outright circus, with scientists booing, hissing, giggling and shouting out during the talk to challenge Dembski, or
• A crowd more-or-less devoid of any real scientists.

While I almost want the former, I expect the latter. Personally, I think the finest reception Dembski deserves in Berkeley is one of indifference. In particular, there is no pressing need for biologists to be there at all, because as one of the MCB grad students said, "it's obviously not an MCB-sponsored event."