“Intelligent Design”
This is a fascinating term for a strikingly unintelligent movement. Apparently they hope that by using the word “intelligent” in the name they can make some claim to clue, and delay for a nanosecond the conclusion that the people who support this nonsense are no more than dim kooks. We know this is simply their next vain attempt at foisting “creationism” into our public schools and trying to convince our children that their fantasies and misunderstanding of the world around us are in fact real.
Consistent with the RRWKF (Radical Right Wink Kook Fringe) fear and loathing of science and reality, these people want to extend the nonsense they spout in the sanctity of their churches into the classroom. They are free and welcome to believe whatever they like, SO LONG as they inflict no harm on the rest of society as a result of their beliefs.
If believing that some supernatural character waved a wand and created the Earth, and is responsible for everything that happens and exists, makes sense to them, then intelligent people have much better ways to spend their time than to convince them of reality.
Trying to teach this nonsense to innocent students in public schools, masquerading as science, is where we as society draw the line. This belongs in the church, and if parents are so inclined to spout it to their children in their homes, then so be it. If children are smart enough in spite of their parents, which is a hard hurdle to overcome, then they will see this for what it is and give it the (lack of) weight it merits in the marketplace of ideas.
Schools are not churches, and religion has no place in public schools other than as one of many sociological phenomena among many, and certainly not in classrooms where science is taught.
A core component of this nonsense is a fundamental misunderstanding of the word “theory” as used in the scientific context. Uneducated and uninformed as they are, they take it to mean simple conjecture. When it is pointed out to them that they do not understand this basic concept, they simply yell louder as if that would make them right.
Religion that is at all thoughtful and contemplative realizes early on that science and reality are not at odds with faith at the core. Only those who have grossly misunderstood and misinterpreted religious texts to be literal truth rather than parable and metaphor are driven to inflict their foolishness on the rest of society.
Apparently they hope for validation of their idiocy, but so long as there are intelligent people among us that will never come.
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June 5, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Could not agree with you more. I’m not sure why Christians want ID in public schools anyway. Should they not be teaching their children the Religious Dogma at home an on Sunday’s at Sunday School? Why is that not good enough for them? Can’t you pray with your children in the morning before they go to school? Why does it HAVE to be done at school?
Some little part of me believes that down deep in their souls, Christians do in fact believe in Religious Oppression. It is no longer good enough to simply spread the word, they’ve done that and now the whole world knows about Jesus (and a majority of them reject it). So now they have nothing else to do but try to FORCE it on people. Through laws and public education. Even if it means brainwashing the kiddies, then so be it, as long as they can get more people into their fold of sheep.