Deep, baying howls of derision.

Today the New York Times brings us Richard Dawkins at his finest. Dawkins reviews intelligent design advocate Michael Behe's new book The Edge of Evolution. He precisely incises both Behe's psyche and his thesis (which appears to be evaporating).

Here's a snippet: "Single-handedly, Behe is taking on Ronald Fisher, Sewall Wright, J. B. S. Haldane, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Richard Lewontin, John Maynard Smith and hundreds of their talented co-workers and intellectual descendants. Notwithstanding the inconvenient existence of dogs, cabbages and pouter pigeons, the entire corpus of mathematical genetics, from 1930 to today, is flat wrong. Michael Behe, the disowned biochemist of Lehigh University, is the only one who has done his sums right. You think?"

Now, get over there and read it.

Update: Just in, here is a video of Richard Dawkins reflecting on Darwin, the Beagle and the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands.