I'm so confused

[boydmain]

I was just excitedly reading about a local conference coming up dealing with transportation alternatives and moving beyond oil dependence. It is being organized by a group called the Cascadia Center, and sponsored by Microsoft, WSDOT, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency among others. Looks like a good agenda and a decent price for a two-day event

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[skiplogic]

I dont think creationism and environmentalism are fundamentally opposed, are they?

[boydmain]

No, I guess not. It's just jarring to see a strongly anti-science group coming out on the 'right' side of climate change, traditionally an issue in which arguments for and against have been divided along whether one believes in/the science.

Personally, I'm confused because I am vehemently against DI's anti-evolution agenda, but decidedly for what the Cascadia Center is trying to do with this conference. Can I separate the two, or is writing a registration cheque for the conference to pay to the order of "Discovery Institute" implicitly supporting their creationist antics?

[skiplogic]

are there any speakers attributing global warming to hell fire? sin less and the ocean will survive!

I know what you mean. Any time DI is involved it's like "uh... what's the agenda here?"

[garybuseylives]

That place has always been the fulminating black spot on Seattle's record.

But if they're trying to do some good... I don't know. Give them a chance? It's true, alternative transportation and "intelligent" design aren't mutually exclusive, and I highly doubt that the DI is going to try and tarnish their own record (further) by turning the conference into something it's not.

Think about it this way:

Maybe your check will go to the brave whistleblower who works in the bowels of the DI and one day comes to the surface with tales of hideous mismanagement, discrimination, and embezzlement, taking the company down from the inside out. One must have hope.

[bowandarrow]

I want you to DJ at the party Friday night, please!