Unintelligent Design
Once upon a time, there was nothing. Then God said, there needs to be something and made it all. This is creationism and it got chucked out of schools because it's not scioence, it's religion, and there is no place in public school for teaching dogma.
So, the new version of this is, "Once upon a time there was nothing. Then somebody said there needs to be something and made it all." This is intelligent design. I'm sorry, but I fail to see the big difference here. Why should this pile of crap be taught? What does it explain? Well, gee, we think life started like this and there is no explanation? I can get a better description of the origin of life from a four year old. At least that one has a potential for humor.
The people pushing ID are liars and hucksters of the worst kind. They point to the theory of evolution and say that there is disagreement, and that because of this, their idea should be taught too. Never mind the fact that there is absolutely nothing to support the idea. Never mind that there is an entire world of data that supports it (literally, it's called "The Earth"). They want us to think that because there are arguments between the scientists, that their pile of garbage is too.
It is not. It is anti-science.
Science is about finding explanations for things in the natural world, and every bit of it is always being looked at. Everything. Gravity, how electricity works, light, chemistry, all of it is always being re-examined. ID says we don't know, and can never know, so stop looking.
Evolutionary science has all sorts of arguments going on. Is it a slow steady process, or does it happen in leaps? Is Gould and Eldredge's "punctuated equilibrium" idea right? Why did sharks survive but other aquatic dinosaurs not? These are all valid questions. ID wants all of those to just stop.
This is the same argument that Gallileo and Copernicus had hundreds of years ago, fighting against the church. Hundreds of years later, we have now sent things to those places that they were looking at in their telescopes, but none of that would have happened had they not asked questions. Intelligent Design is about not asking questions. It is about being and staying ignorant of the world around us, and it should be burned and interred with the rest of history's failures as one more gasp from the quacks who would suppress truth.
So, the new version of this is, "Once upon a time there was nothing. Then somebody said there needs to be something and made it all." This is intelligent design. I'm sorry, but I fail to see the big difference here. Why should this pile of crap be taught? What does it explain? Well, gee, we think life started like this and there is no explanation? I can get a better description of the origin of life from a four year old. At least that one has a potential for humor.
The people pushing ID are liars and hucksters of the worst kind. They point to the theory of evolution and say that there is disagreement, and that because of this, their idea should be taught too. Never mind the fact that there is absolutely nothing to support the idea. Never mind that there is an entire world of data that supports it (literally, it's called "The Earth"). They want us to think that because there are arguments between the scientists, that their pile of garbage is too.
It is not. It is anti-science.
Science is about finding explanations for things in the natural world, and every bit of it is always being looked at. Everything. Gravity, how electricity works, light, chemistry, all of it is always being re-examined. ID says we don't know, and can never know, so stop looking.
Evolutionary science has all sorts of arguments going on. Is it a slow steady process, or does it happen in leaps? Is Gould and Eldredge's "punctuated equilibrium" idea right? Why did sharks survive but other aquatic dinosaurs not? These are all valid questions. ID wants all of those to just stop.
This is the same argument that Gallileo and Copernicus had hundreds of years ago, fighting against the church. Hundreds of years later, we have now sent things to those places that they were looking at in their telescopes, but none of that would have happened had they not asked questions. Intelligent Design is about not asking questions. It is about being and staying ignorant of the world around us, and it should be burned and interred with the rest of history's failures as one more gasp from the quacks who would suppress truth.
posted by Mike N | 5:14 PM
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