Quote of the day
Kung Fu Monkey responds to GWB's endorsement of teaching intelligent design (and does one of the best jobs of chanelling HST that I've seen):
"I'm not going to rehash the whole ridiculousness of Intelligent Design, or as it's more commonly known: "Creationism Trying to Look Serious By, Say, Squinting -- Like Denise Richards Playing the Nuclear ( Read more... )
"I'm not going to rehash the whole ridiculousness of Intelligent Design, or as it's more commonly known: "Creationism Trying to Look Serious By, Say, Squinting -- Like Denise Richards Playing the Nuclear ( Read more... )
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1) He has a link to Warrenellis.com near the top of his page and
2) He clearly rants what everyone's been thinking or saying or been too struck dumb by the idiocy of religious fanatics to stammer out coherently.
It amused me greatly when GWB's science advisor asserted the next day that GWB was actually just talking out his ass.
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Although he said that curriculum decisions should be made by school districts rather than the federal government, Bush told Texas newspaper reporters in a group interview at the White House on Monday that he believes that intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution as competing theories.
"Both sides ought to be properly taught . . . so people can understand what the debate is about," he said, according to an official transcript of the session. Bush added: "Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought. . . . You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes."
When I took science classes at Sehome High School, we studied evolution and special creation precisely the same way President Bush describes. We studied special creation right along side evolution, and we studied at the same time what the details of the two ideas were, and we studied what theories are, and we used both of them to talk about how people think and ( ... )
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