Frist, a politician who can be swayed by any breeze more than five knots, has managed to make some interesting headlines backing that Genesis story in psuedo-scientific clothing: Intelligent Design. You know, the theory that that says that the Hairy Thunderer waved his magic wand and "BOOM" everything happened. Of course the Creationist-Dominioniist use somewhat more fancy words than "BOOM", but it all works out to the same thing. Nothing. BOOM. Everything.
So Fristy, who gets his diagnostic information on patients he writes midnight legislation for via heavily-edited video tapes has weighed in for Intelligent Design. Remember, he's already positioning himself for a bid to be elected Christo-Fascist of the Year for 2008.
"I think today a pluralistic society should have access to a broad range of fact, of science, including faith," Frist said.
Frist, a doctor who graduated from Harvard Medical School, said exposing children to both evolution and intelligent design "doesn't force any particular theory on anyone. I think in a pluralistic society that is the fairest way to go about education and training people for the future."
Pluralistic views? Frist is fucking surgeon...do you supposed back in the days he was actually practicing medicine before he started doing auto-lobotomies on himself in the Senate Mens Room mirror, he stood around the OR with a patient lying open on a table in front of him and waxed rhapsodic about pluralistic viewpoints in performing surgery? Because the "pluralistic view" to his profession would be Psychic Surgery performed by a Colorado Christo-Fascist offering complete services in male breast reduction and the removal of wallet-sized tumors from your back pocket.
Harvard Med has to be somehwat embarrassed about this guy having one of their diplomas...
posted by Jo Fish on 08.21.05 at 07:50 PM
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Well said. ALL a college degree does anymore is to train people for a job. If you want a science education, a real science education, you're going to have to pick up science books and start reading. I seriously doubt if Frist could explain what we know about evoltion, such as geographic isolation, genetic bottlenecks, convergent and divergent evolution, on and on... Hell, I bet he couldn't give the 'scientific' version of creationism or ID without refering to an attack on evolution even once. Of course, no creationists can. Since there is no evidence for special creation, there is no scientific theory of creation.
