He doesn't seem very objective to me. Perhaps a presentation of thoughts in the market place of ideas would be better served with a positive presentation rather than an attempt to demonize others...but hey, that's just me.
I actually know Ed Hudgins. He is (or was?) a scholar at the Cato Institute...one of the few "pure" Objectivists there.
I fully agree his analogy between economics with millions of humans working out there best interests...forming a kind of spontaneous order and evolution is silly.
Leave it to FReepers to see the faults in this. The guy is kind of a nerd...and came from a fundamentalist family (who have rejected him)...seems to still be living out a rebellion rationalized into atheism. Kind of sad his lapses in logical thinking, eh?
I'm more and more convinced unbelief comes from and leads to intellectual blindness.