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"Are you unaquainted with market economics? Are conservative ideas automatically associated with Ayn Rand?"

Hey now, don't bite. jennyp has posted some things quite complimentary to Rand and one of the themes of Atlas Shrugged is what gives the life's blood to the US, exemplified by New York City (that railroad).

No, conservative ideas are not automatically associated with Rand, as you know. She certainly would not agree with many conservatives of today, especially politicians.

Nonetheless, is it in the archives?

Given a choice between a world run on Randian principles, or one run along Marxist lines, I'd choose Rand.

Reality is somewhere in between. Most people are by nature, altruistic. What Rand objects to is coerced altruism. But that is another thread and, I hope, another time.

The central argument of ID is that market forces can't bring order out of stochastic processes. That is at the heart of the arguments from improbability. An implied argument of ID is that it is possible to predict need in a chaotic system and design for it. That, of course, is the very heart of socialism and planned economies.