Wednesday, August 03, 2005

JR explains why it's a Bad Thing that the President of the United States says that Intelligent Design ought to be taught in schools along with, say, actual science.

For my part, I'm beyond boggle. I'm so far beyond boggle I live in Canada. Where any national politician who said something so idiotic (and so blatantly pandering to religious right know-nothings) would immediately cease to be a national politician, with serious repercussions for his or her party.

Next, we'll start teaching the concept that 3 = 1 in math class, as an "alternative" to regular arithmetic, which is, after all, only a "theory." And it won't be called Trinitarianism, because that would be religious. It'll be called Intelligent Arithmetic, because when you're stupid, there's nothing cleverer than calling yourself smart.

This is all right out of the Goebbels playbook, and the country stands for it. My heart is sore for my country.

Oh, as for God's participation in evolution: which would be more impressive for a deity, to create a bunch of complicated stuff to jumpstart evolution, journeyman style? Or to create a tiny number of really simple rules, maybe no more than twenty, out of which the chaotic stuff of the galaxy slowly moves towards ever greater complexity, organizing itself until it becomes, by stages, sentient, and can thank Her? I'm going to go with the genius-level Creator. She's more miraculous.

Oh and... this from July 30th's The Economist:

When the Discovery Institute, a promoter of intelligent design, came up with a list of 370 people with science degrees who backed their ideas, the National Centre for Science Education responded with almost 600 scientists called Steve or Stephanie who rejected them.

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8:32 PM

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