Darwinist Ideologues Are on the Run

Human Events Online ^ | Jan 31, 2006 | Allan H. Ryskind

[Sweetjustusnow]

The two scariest words in the English language? Intelligent Design! That phrase tends to produce a nasty rash and night sweats among our elitist class.

Should some impressionable teenager ever hear those words from a public school teacher, we are led to believe, that student may embrace a secular heresy: that some intelligent force or energy, maybe even a god, rather than Darwinian blind chance, has been responsible for the gazillions of magnificently designed life forms that populate our privileged planet.

[VadeRetro]

Saloon girls don't ride off into the sunset, unless you're doing a spoof.

Hmmm. How about he stays behind and waves to her as she rides off into the sunset?

[PatrickHenry]

Maybe she goes off with a runaway slave (Hollywood likes that stuff) and he goes back to being a gunfighter. No man can escape his destiny.

[spunkets]

"The geocentric model of the solar system is an example."

The laws of physics are valid in any frame. They never had a theory, only observations. A hypothesis, or theory describes the interactions. The data is just the data.

"The germ theory of disease was another paradigm shift from previous tested theories."

Their were no theories before the scientific method could be applied. The paradigm shift was not in desease theory, it was in the applicaiton of the scientific method to uncover the truth of the matter.

[Doctor Stochastic]

[Senator Bedfellow]

Did you read the Western about the former outlaw who gets caught up in a range war?

Actually, I'm working on my own murder mystery right now - it's about a hard-drinking private eye who's trying to redeem himself after being kicked off the force.

[AndrewC]

After some 8 years of battling Clintonites here and other places I grew a bit bored with the same old stuff, plus the battle was over, the US was a free country again. We were still in election mode though so I decided to pick a name which would show my views right off - Gore3000. The conservatives understood the joke right off, to the others I cannot bother explaining it.

But the debate is not over. A recent poll showed nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools. ---SacBee February 3, 2006

[longshadow]

..... and slit the throats of Suky Tawdry, Jennie Diver, Polly Peachem, and Miss Lucy Brown?

Und die minderjährige Witwe
deren Namen jeder weiß
wachte auf und war geschändet
Mackie, welches war dein Preis?
Wachte auf und war geschändet
Mackie, welches war dein Preis?

[Coyoteman]

A recent poll showed nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools. ---SacBee February 3, 2006

So? A Gallup poll conducted in June 2001 found that 28 percent of Americans believe in astrology, an increase of three percentage points from a 1990 poll. And a 1997 Yankelovich Partners poll found that 37 percent of Americans believe somewhat in astrology, a 20 percentage point hike from the same poll conducted in 1976. Source.

[AndrewC]

Yep, and 28% or even 37% is not (read it and weep) ~66.7%

[Senator Bedfellow]

55% of Americans think that lasers work by focusing sound waves. Teach the controversy!

[Coyoteman]

Teach the controversy!

Would love to, but I'm for bed. Night all!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"Their were no theories before the scientific method could be applied. The paradigm shift was not in disease theory, it was in the application of the scientific method to uncover the truth of the matter."

The scientific revolution started in the late 16th century. Even before the scientific revolution, physicians and medical researchers did follow procedures much like your OODA loops, for many years. They made some progress, but were limited because they were missing the mechanism of disease -- in large part because they lacked the instruments to see germs.

A microscope capable of viewing germs was developed in the late 17th century. Pasteur connected the dots in the 19th century -- by proposing the theory that germs caused disease.

Without the microscope germs could not have been seen, and the germ theory of disease would probably not have been developed. As we develop new instruments -- we will continue to modify theories or replace existing theories.

We don't know everything yet. We don't even know how much we don't know. The pace of scientific discovery has never been greater -- and it is increasing all the time.

[whattajoke]

(read it and weep) ~66.7%
< BR>We are weeping, Andrew, we are. Which is kind of the point.

[Thatcherite]

Did you also stab Lincoln on the steps of the Capitol and slit the throats of Suky Tawdry, Jennie Diver, Polly Peachem, and Miss Lucy Brown?

No, that wasn't me. How dare you suggest it? That was Charles Darwin, but I did help with the coverup, placing all the evidence that eventually got Wilberforce and Lloyd George sent to the gallows for the grisly crime.

[AndrewC]

We are weeping, Andrew, we are. Which is kind of the point.

Not quite, because like the filibustering Democrats, the 33% thwart the will of the people.

Harris Poll. June 17-21, 2005. N=1,000 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3. --

"Regardless of what you may personally believe, which of these do you believe should be taught in public schools? "Evolution only. [READ IF NECESSARY: Evolution says that human beings evolved from earlier stages of animals.] "Creationism only. [READ IF NECESSARY: Creationism says that human beings were created directly by God.] "Intelligent design only. [READ IF NECESSARY: Intelligent design says that human beings are so complex that they required a powerful force or intelligent being to help create them.] "All three."
						.
			%
	Evolution only		12
	Creationism only		23
	Intelligent design only		4
	All three		55
	None of these (vol.)		3
	Unsure		3

[Thatcherite]

yes... tap dancing with the stars... right foot... shuffle ball, shuffle ball, step, step, shuffle ball, shuffle ball, change, turn... now left foot...."

Would anyone care to explain this to me?

[VadeRetro]

There's these two old lefty women, see? Think maybe Shirley MacLaine and Jane Fonda. They were friends in "the movement" back when.

They quarreled over Cambodia and Pol Pot. Shirley thought Pol had gone too far but Jane didn't think he'd gone far enough. So, all these years later they bump into each other and start commiserating over their worthless, rebellious, Republican children, until Shirley accidentally brings up the "C" word. That's right ... Cambodia ...

[PatrickHenry]

Yeah, and then they have a range war! Meanwhile, lurking in the shadows there's this hard-drinking private eye who's trying to redeem himself after being kicked off the force.

[VadeRetro]

REAL hard-drinking. Sterno, Listerine, NyQuill, the hard stuff. He used to carry a big gun, a Vulcan Gatling he'd modified from an old, junked A-10 Warthog, but he's turned in the gun and the badge. Now he quietly and illegally has only his little .44 magnum under his coat.

[balrog666]

While the aliens prepare to invade as soon as they can get that pesky Mac-virus out of their Windows-BEM® computer ...