Yes, kids. It's reaching epidemic proportions of stupididity out there. The paper of record, lacking the good guidance of Judy (You go, Ho!) Miller to help with it's editorial guidance has led a story with this opening:
At the heart of the debate over intelligent design is this question: Can a scientific explanation of the history of life include the actions of an unseen higher being?
The proponents of intelligent design, a school of thought that some have argued should be taught alongside evolution in the nation's schools, say that the complexity and diversity of life go beyond what evolution can explain.
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In one often-cited argument, Michael J. Behe, a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University and a leading design theorist, compares complex biological phenomena like blood clotting to a mousetrap: Take away any one piece - the spring, the baseboard, the metal piece that snags the mouse - and the mousetrap stops being able to catch mice.
Yeah, and take away the tuition and gift money that parents and alumni give to Lehigh because they've got a professor spouting crap that should be taught in Sunday School, not at university and you've got a problem, if you're a real university. One day we'll all either be over this Intelligent Design crap, and getting back to scientific investigation and principles or the Rapture will have come. Either way, my beautiful mind won't be troubled further.
posted by Jo Fish on 08.22.05 at 09:50 AM
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As a student of Science (BA in Biology, magna cum laude) I hate to see my country dumb down anymore than it already is. All that ID really is is an attack on evolution (i.e., it isn't real science). These creationists, for proponents of ID ARE creationists, are actually wanting to enter the classroom so that they can heap their nonscientific criticisms upon evolutionary biology. Now, do you really believe that if they suceed in getting their crap, 'scientific creationism,' into the biology classroom that they'll allow serious criticisms of it to be presented. HELL NO!!! As soon as any science teacher worth their salt tried to expose the HUGE flaws in creationism, some kid would report it to their parent and that teacher would be pressured to sanitize the instruction. They'll want the unjustified respect all religions seem to get, all the same time claiming it's good science not religion. "Just present both sides as equal, let the kids decide." What we really need in science classrooms is the scientific method. By the way, how do I know all this? I was a hard core science teacher trying to teach good current science (Plate tectonics, Big Bang cosmology, evolutionary biology, 4.6 billion year old solar system, geologic time, the Earth is not flat, that kind of stuff :) in a creationists community. And this scenario is exactly what happened to me.
