And On the Eighth Day God Took a Huge Dump and He Saw That It Was Kansas...
Not content to rest on the laurels of the well deserved ridicule they received in 1999 when they last attacked Evolution, the Kansas Board of Education has once again stood up to be counted with the mentally challenged poopheads who subscribe to the idea of so called "Intelligent Design Theory." They are, this time, including language in science textbooks that is much more critical of evolution, misleading students into thinking that evolution is less well supported than it is.
Intelligent Design (ID) is just cynically repackaged creationism which is nothing more than unsubstantiated religious dogma. The problem is that the IDers have now butressed themselves with proponents who have PhDs but who invariably either teach at less than fully accredited schools, or community colleges and blatantly religious institutes. They seldom have anything of note published and are not taken seriously by those they would claim are their peers.
However, they bandy about their titles and demand equal time. Having been slaughtered repeatedly in debate and peer review, many of these neo creationists have adopted the tactic of insisting that schools "teach the controversy." In other words, devote classroom time to the fact that morons are convinced that evolution is nonsense and that some god whipped us all up as-is in his kitchen. Morons.
The "controversy" is entirely manufactured by those who want it taught but I'll play along a moment. Teach it appropriately. It should be taught in social studies and history classes and given the same amount of time given to other similar historical footnotes such as the belief by some that if one sails his ship too far out to sea one would sail over the edge of a flat earth and into an abyss.
We may have all been created by an all powerful god. We may also live on a flat earth resting on the back of an endless stack of cosmic turtles. Winged monkeys may also fly out of my ass and carry me to the moon for tea with Jesus at his summer place.
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