Over at the intelligent design blog Telic Thoughts, the authors offer a Henry Rollins Award for Supreme Threatiness. What is threatiness you ask? According to their blog, threatiness is “when you perceive something to be a threat, without having to justify this by evidence and arguments.” Kind of like Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, I guess. The award is explained as follows:

“Sometimes, when browsing the blogosphere, you come across statements so hysterical and divorced from anything mildly resembling reality that you can do nothing but collapse over your keyboard with laughter. I’ve decided to honor these fine pieces of punditry with a prestigious award, named after Henry Rollins, a very angry man convinced that “the new Dark Ages are upon us!”

Apparently when Telic Thoughts come across these statements so hysterical and divorced from anything mildly resembling reality they’re not talking about content from their own blog.

Telic Thoughts took issue with this rant by Rollins against intelligent design. To Henry they pose the question: If you believe intelligent design is nothing but a fundamentalist plot to bring back the Dark Ages, what’s the chance that you’ll be able to be evaluate the issue objectively?

Objectively? The problem with that question of course is that this issue can not be evaluated objectively. Intelligent design is not observable or measurable, and thus belongs in the realm of theology or theological scientific philosophy, not science.

Click here to see the lucky winners of The Henry Rollins Award for Supreme Threatiness.