Sunday, May 15, 2005

The Campaign for Ignorance

In the ever going campaign for ignorance, the American Family Ass. is claiming victory over the stickers that they have managed to get stuck in the front of text books that say "Evolution is a theory not a fact" I see this thrown around so often that it wouldn't warrant mention this article seems to cover a lot of my religious right peeves.
First off this quote "It was simply because some Christian parents were concerned that evolution was being taught as fact and not as theory," he says, "and they wanted their kids to be told, 'Look, make sure you think critically.'" No it was because some people are pretty pissed that their kids will go to school and learn things like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny not being real their parents may eventually ceded these facts, but won't also want to cede that Creationism is simply not true, because then they will have the ability to question the whole bible and they will loose their ability to use their threat of going to heaven to control their kids. Second, being Christian and "having faith" by definition is not critically thinking. Having faith means "belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence" this is NOT by any means critical thinking.
and the following quote is what put my over the edge.

The high priests of evolution[sic], if you will, are becoming increasingly shrill in their attacks on, for instance, the intelligent design scientists," the AFA Law Center attorney notes, "and the reason for that is they're not able to answer [the proponents of the intelligent design theory]. They can't debate them and meet them on intellectual and scientific terms."


The reason that evolutionists are becoming more shrill, is because you dumb mother fuckers don't listen, several scientists have explained over and over again the flaws in intelligent design, and yet you don't listen. My favorite is the watch story that says "If I were to look under a rock and find a watch clearly that watch had to have been made and didn't just happen" more detailed story The key that William Paley, missed out on is something that people have been "shrilling" about for a while, first of is watched don't reproduce, secondly you don't a have fossil record where you can observe how the watches have evolved over time to current watches. Anyway if you'll note, the way that I analyzed the watchmaker theory is an example of critical thinking, which is the only thing you are taking from your kids with your fucking stickers in the books.

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