If you've ever read William Dembski, you know he has an infuriating ego and is aggravatingly pompous. If you've ever read Dan Brown, you know that he simply can't write, churning out canned syntax and ridiculous plots. What would you get if someone made an unholy fusion of the two?
I'm pretty sure that this is one of those chimerae the religious right gets so incensed about, and for once, I agree with them. Kill it. Kill it now. Kill it with fire.
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