I was appalled by the sheer stupidity evinced in Christopher Flickinger's August 17 article on Evolution. Having read the article, there is no way I would speak to Flickinger either. Arguing with a fool is pointless. Just to list the obvious problems with the article:
Intelligent Design presents itself as a scientific theory (though it lacks most of the essential attributes of a scientific theory). If it is a scientific theory, one cannot have it both ways, as Flickinger does, and claim that criticism of ID is an attack on religion.
Evolution is a scientific theory, not a moral code. Arguing that we should let natural selection guide our moral choices is like arguing we should push granny downstairs, because gravity demands that objects fall towards the center of the earth. Is the theory of universal gravitation immoral? After all, millions die from gravity related causes every year!
Science classes do indeed include two sides of a debate, where a scientific debate exists. There is no serious scientific debate about evolution. Instead, there is a group of religiously motivated theocrats trying to impose a particular creation myth on science classes.
As for the hilarious contentions that the Bible reveals the existence of subatomic particles and that the earth is round (Isaiah actually says 'the circle of the earth', and the earth is most definitely not circular, it's nearly spherical), they appear to be the product of a hopeful imagination too little versed in scientific principles.
I'm a conservative of long standing; I was campus advisor to the College Republicans here in Nebraska for seven years; and I was a frequent reader of Human Events back in the nineties. It appears to have been transformed from a serious and thoughtful conservative magazine to a vehicle for the random and uneducated thoughts of unschooled religious zealots. That's too bad.
Gerard S. Harbison, Professor of Chemistry, UNL, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA.
gerry@setanta.unl.edu
"As for the hilarious contentions that the Bible reveals the existence of subatomic particles and that the earth is round (Isaiah actually says 'the circle of the earth', and the earth is most definitely not circular, it's nearly spherical), they appear to be the product of a hopeful imagination too little versed in scientific principles."
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I hope you never say that the sun rises or sets because the sun actually rising or setting is impossible. ;)
Bravo! Well said.
Nicely said. Now send one to Gilder's cretins at The American Spectator.