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Thanks for the ping!
I saw this on google very early in the morning (GMT). I searched for "intelligent design" and at first there were just two news sites running the story. I thought "uh oh.." and just hoped it wouldn't spread, but when I checked again an hour or so later there were a couple of dozen new sites running it. A few hours after that it filled the first 8 pages on google news and a neon word "darn" appeared in my head.
But I think this is blown out of proportion. It's probably been mentioned already but notice how Bush is clever enough to subtley divert the question:
"You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas. The answer is 'yes.'""
Notice he didn't say that such non-science ideas should be taught in science classes though :) Very clever dodge.
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Prez Bush, you've trivialized the conservative movement by this shocking endorsement.. Its unbecoming of you to chose this dumb televangelist crapola over the integrity of the entire scientific establishment.
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Almost 900 posts since I was pinged! I am going to skip them, except to say that, if we start teaching that a Judeo-Christian God created life on earth by pointing the Cosmic Finger, I vote that we also teach other creation myths, including my favorite, "turtles all the way down." Also, Gilgamesh.
And, as you know, I'm Catholic!
I just have a fondness for creation myths. Every well educated person should know several.
How could Bush be so dumb?
He's just lost the Republicans a million future votes (that's less than 1% of the voters), but that's enough to lose a presidential election.