Aidan and I did some research today on what type of rigging to use when we go fishing. I think we finally have everything down...we're going on Wednesday, so I'll let you (my many adoring fans) know how it turns out.
I added a link to show the weather here...now don't you feel special?
Argument for the day.... Intelligent Design is neither intelligent, nor a design...discuss
For those of you unfamiliar, Intelligent Design is creationism wrapped up in a catchy "scientific" sounding name...our wonderful president now thinks it should be introduced in schools...maybe in a contempory issues course, but please don't try and pass it off as science..our kids are far enough behind the rest of the world as it is....
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Please tell Aidan I love him. I tried to call him on his birthday. I sent some extra special things for him. We miss him so much.
It's only a small fillip on the vast rococo monument to incompetence, anti-science, and lies that the Republican party has erected over our country, but I take it personally.
It really isn't just Bush, who is only the Moron-In-Chief, but an abysmally stupid press corps that is responsible for the propagation of this horribly poor idea.
Here's what the debate is about.
Scientists have established the fact of evolution with thousands of lines of evidence and the work of hundreds of thousands of researchers. This idea is based on material evidence and repeated experiment, extensively documented in the scientific literature.
This evidence flatly contradicts literal religious accounts. Religious conservatives have mounted a long running social and political campaign to get their falsified dogma treated as the truth, despite the absence of any material or logical support for their position.
This debate is not about assessing the evidence, but about getting faith-based bullshit taught as science.
And that is what should be taught: teachers, we need to get in front of the students and expose them to both sides. We need to stand up and plainly state that creationism is a lie and any attempt to incorporate faith and the supernatural into science is as destructive to the enterprise as would be requiring religion to provide concrete, repeatable tests of their beliefs.
That's the only rational version of "equal time" that will work.
Regardless of where you stand on the issue, I think the bigger picture is that our school systems need to focus on the "basics". Religion and other non-academic items should be taught at home, not in the classroom.
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