So.. *thump*, *thump*, the fundamentalist whackos (and I use that term
in the purely scientific definition) are trying to push Intelligent
Design (aka: The Bible Creation story) into Science classes in
school. This is a topic that raises my blood pressure through the
roof every time I think about it.
I don't care about your beliefs. You don't have to care about mine. What you do have to care about in a
Science Class is that the children should be tought... wait for it....
SCIENCE!!!
Intelligent Design, as I have stated before, is hogwash. It
inserts Religious Punting (tm) -- the practice of replacing "I don't
know" with "God wanted it that way" -- into any questions about the
origin of life and everything else.
Bradamant had a
really good discussion on her blog about it and it got me thinking. The posting also refers to a
hilarious post at Slate about
the same topic that made me chuckle and think "yeah... why make
the discussion so complicated? Humor usually hits home a little
better with people who have no idea what Science means anyway".
But, frankly, anything that makes self-righteous know-it-all religious
types who make assertions without any basis for them look dumb is great
reading to me.