Christopher Hitchens is Hilarious.

If you don't know who Chris Hitchens is, he's an intellectual or writer of sorts who contributes quite frequently to Slate.com, and most recently wrote God is Not Great, which I find to be one of the more amusing book titles in recent years. You can try to categorize him, but I find it exceedingly difficult to put any useful labels on him except to say that he's clearly intelligent, scathing, and (probably not delibrately) funny.

His most recent piece in Slate is a one-pager, and reads like a blogpost. The title? How Blind Salamanders Make Nonsense of Creationists' Claims. That's funny.

Here are some snippets that tend to illustrate his funniness:

• The creationists (to give them their proper name and to deny them their annoying annexation of the word intelligent)...

• Hold it right there, says Ann Coulter in her ridiculous book Godless: The Church of Liberalism. "The interesting question is not: How did a primitive eye become a complex eye? The interesting question is: How did the 'light-sensitive cells' come to exist in the first place?"

• It's only once we shake our own innate belief in linear progression and consider the many recessions we have undergone and will undergo that we can grasp the gross stupidity of those who repose their faith in divine providence and godly design.

OK, so it's not like...laugh out loud funny when presented this way...because to so casually and with utter certainty call all creationists utter morons in a national publication is amusing to me. Even with the Ann Coulter comment, he's not really saying anything substantive about the book, but he just thought he'd toss in "ridiculous." Funny.

I have also decided, after noticing his observation, that I will not use the phrase "Intelligent Design" anymore. Any suggestions for replacements? Poof!-Lifeists? Whizbang Worldism? Claymanism? WutzSaientz? It's Not True Because I Don't Like It...ism?

But seriously, Creationists? Please stop this nonsense. If we're not expected to believe in your God, then let's not pretend we're supposed to believe in anything else resembling ONLY religion.