What matters in Kansas

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What matters in Kansas

Slate

by William Saletan

 

"This week, the Kansas State Board of Education will wrap up hearings

on 'intelligent design,' a theistic alternative to the theory of

evolution. Scientists have refused to testify, dismissing ID as

tarted-up creationism. Newspapers are comparing the hearings to the

1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. Liberals, editorialists, and biologists

wonder aloud how people can refuse to see evolution when it's staring

them in the face. Maybe they should ask themselves. It's the

creationists in Kansas who are evolving. And it's the evolutionists

who can't see it." (05/11/05)

 

http://www.slate.com/id/2118320/

[SmallStone]

It's too bad liberals and scientists don't welcome this test. It's too bad they go around sneering, as censors of science often have, that the new theory is too radical, offensive, or embarrassing to be taken seriously. It's too bad they think good science consists of believing the right things. In the long view—the evolutionary view—good science consists of using evidence and experiment to find out whether what we thought was right is wrong. If they do that in Kansas, by whatever name, that's all that matters.

Stupid stupid stupid. ID is not scientific. We could easily postulate that some mysterious intelligent designer used evolution as his or her tool. How can that hypothesis be tested?

[atheist_thinker]

Honest questions and thought is what religion does not want people to have unless it is in their own controlled environment.

[Purple Rhino]

So what's going to happen when some of these kids get into college? oh say maybe to be in the medical profession... (I know it's Kansas lol) ... showing up with a head full of ID and clueless in the science.

 

 

All I can think of is Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies being an 'MD' (Mountain Doctor)

 

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