If I Hear "intelligent Design" One More Time...

[reverdybrune]

I am so tired of hearing about Intelligent Design. I'm almost ready to say just freaking let them teach it so all the Evangelicals will SHUT UP! God Almighty... It's not that I don't think kids are smart enough to be able to throw this bs back in the teacher's face. Okay it kind of is, but really now, there's not a whole lot of hope that those

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[reverdybrune]

softwareNerd (on OO.net) commented:

This letter to a school is a pretty good parody.

[reverdybrune]

OMG, thanks for that. I got a good laugh out of it. Equally interesting were the letters he got from readers. The one thing I'm wondering is whether Intelligent Design is actually being given actual consideration by most schools, or if it's all just hype. But at least there are still sane people who think it's a joke.

[reverdybrune]

softwareNerd (on OO.net) commented:

Some religious folks are trying real hard to give creationism a scientific spin. For instance, there a $25 million creationism "museum" (a second link).

If these chaps are going to spend their time and money on irrationality, I rather see it spent on creationism/intelligent design than on a few other things. Also, it seems to me that when a religious person says something like "reason is fine but faith is compatible with it", they make an insidious argument that many find difficult to refute. However, if they push the line "reason is supreme, and we have reason on our side", then they've given up the epistemological battle, and accepted the very basis that will defeat them.

[reverdybrune]

I read about that in the paper. I was hoping that maybe all this hype will backlash on them. I mean, some kids in the classroom will be able to put two and two together and say hey, wait a minute, this doesn't make sense. At least they're not taking the "faith and reason can coexist" approach. Except that they're sneaking faith in. It's just all so ridiculous. But if I asked a bunch of people I know whether they believed in evolution or creation, I'd probably get about 50/50.