Intelligent Design and Idiots
It’s a sad time we live in when our education system starts taking such drastic steps backward. The New York Times reports that the Kansas Board of Education voted 6 to 4 on Wednesday to encompass Intelligent Design as hard science in biology classrooms. The only bright spot I can see out of this is that there were 4 people on the school board that objected whole-heartedly to this bastardization of education.
“This is a sad day, not just for Kansas kids, but for Kansas,” Janet Waugh of Kansas City, Kan., one of four dissenting board members, said before the vote. “We’re becoming a laughingstock not only of the nation but of the world.”
A laughing stock is right. I would never have dreamed that in the 21st century that religious fanatics would be taking such a strangle hold on this society.
I’ve written about this subject before, and I could write about it ad nauseum and still not change a single mind of people with this affliction to reality. That’s what I see it as really. People so obsessed with religion that they refuse to acknowledge everyday facts if those facts just happen to contradict anything they thought they believed in. Their reaction isn’t “How do I fit these facts into my religious framework”, it’s more like “The devil is alive in the world today! And I will not believe his lies!”.
Jesus! (pun intended) What’s wrong with these people that they can’t believe they came from apes? I swear it’s an ego thing, maybe even racial… Everyone wants to believe that their background is noble and amazing, not that they’re ancestors millions of years ago were putting sticks into holes so they could suck the ants off when they pulled it out. I could give two flying fucks if we originated from apes, we’re here now, and we’re still more uncivilized than a group of gorillas.
I have problems with the term intelligent design. The people promoting creationism are generally just a bunch of backwards ass country fucks, who are less intelligent than the primates that we evolved from.
Here’s what I always say about “intelligent design”:
George W. Bush is living proof that it ain’t so.
And he still looks like a chimp, so there.
I could not agree with both of you more…
I don’t care either way but I don’t want the government stepping further into the school system and telling teachers what the have to teach. If a teacher wants to present other theories I think they should be able to.
Every time I come here your look changes…
Very good point my friend. The fact is ID should be taught–IN THEOLOGY CLASSES. I don’t understand how, even if you choose to ignore the fact of evolution, you can still ignore the fact that ID is inherently NOT science. It can’t be tested, it can’t be confirmed based on observations, it’s flat out not science and therefore doesn’t belong in science class.
Put another way, no one is trying to get chemistry taught in Phys Ed class.
Exactly Jer. It is a non-provable theory. I have no qualms whatsoever with Intelligent Design being taught in any theological class anywhere. But instituting it in a class under the auspice of “science” is absolutely wrong, since it can’t be proven.
Why can’t the Kansans be as intelligent as the people in Dover, PA, who recently deposed eight pro-ID schoolboard officers in an election? Intelligent design is a vacuous concept, totally bankrupt, and is only being peddled because the religionists were bamboozled by the ID proponents that the alternative, Evolutionary Science, would lead them to debauchery, homosexuality, communism, liberalism, atheism, secular humanism, feminism, naziism, and just about any bugaboo the religious right can think of.
I retired smack dab in the middle of the southern Bible belt and, believe me, ID is being peddled to the kids here, albiet under the table. Sad shit, to say the least.
BTW, I retired here because it’s astoundingly cheap although hard to have an intelligent conversation with anybody.
George Bush - The Least Intelligently Designed President Of The United States Of America ever…
Love your blog (mine is next door to yours seemingly, I just clicked on “next blog” & found yours!). Mine is 100 times less together than yours, but we are obviously allies nonetheless. Keep up the good work Dude…nice to know that a good minority (majority?) of Americans are (not) assholes!
Regards
Steiner62
heathen dan: Oh, if only they could be such mental heavyweights as the voters in Dover, PA.
porchwise: It is beautiful country. It’s just too bad the natives live there… :)
steiner62: Thanks for the compliment. I think you (or me) just got lucky that you happened upon my blog the way you did. Typically the ‘next blog’ button on Blogger is pretty random.
Hi Pal
I found this link via a google search on myself, lol! Sometimes an ego can help. I’d forgotten last Nov & specifically this. Glad to have rediscovered a kindred Spirit! Keep blogging the good blog & fighting the good fight.
Your European Ally…
There are millions more here…
Come on America, save yourself!
Then you can start saving the World again.
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