An ID proponent with an intelligent designer?

Via Pharyngula comes this wee gem from the letters page of the Centre Daily, a newspaper of State College, Pennsylvania (home of Penn State University).

The letter-writer, one Richard S. Brown, purports to be a 'manufacturer and part-time tree farmer'. His manufacturing and tree-farming, though, apparently leave him time to pen ill-informed screeds against 'naturalist evolution'. Brown's letter is even more incomprehensible than the usual run of IDist stuff. So much so, in fact, that PZ Myers suspects 'Brown' might really be Michael Bérubé having a bit of a leg-pull.

In the end, PZ concludes that this probably isn't Bérubé. Maybe he's right. After all, Brown's letter is a game effort, but undoubtedly real IDists can be even funnier. For instance, check out this boffo piece by Phyllis Schlafly. Schlafly understands almost nothing about the evolutionary theory she attacks. That's not unusual. But it's clear that she also understands almost nothing about the ID theory she supports. (She seems to think that 'design' is meant in the aesthetic sense.) Steve Reuland deftly gutted Ms Schlafly at The Panda's Thumb, BTW, but really, her own hand was quite enough for the job.

Brown's letter can't quite match Schlafly. But still, as these things go, it's pretty good. If Bérubé really is behind it, he is worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with 'Albert Simpson', letter-writer extraordinaire to the John O'Groat Journal (an obscure master of the letter-writing art, concededly, but a master nonpareil for all that).