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Discovery Institute, painfully aware that it has no intellectual content in the bag called ID, has decided that science for now must "teach the controversy." "The controversy" is a grab-bag of screeches against evolution. Dover's school board has ignored this guidance, plunged ahead, and mandated the teaching of that empty bag called ID.

"The Controversy" is indefensible anyway, as none of the attacks on evolution have any real merit under critical examination. Dover's policy of teaching "ID" alongside of evolution is a real laugher.

"What we've been discussing for the last 50 minutes, class, is what we call "the evolutionary scenario." Now, as to the other theory: God, er, that is, the Intelligent Designer--maybe it was the Raelians but that would be silly--may have designed it or something like it sometime. Nobody knows for sure.

"What's that, Billy? That's not really equal time? How long does it take to say, 'The Intelligent Designer did it?'"


25 posted on 09/22/2005 8:17:44 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro
Discovery Institute, painfully aware that it has no intellectual content in the bag called ID, has decided that science for now must "teach the controversy."

I have no problem with "teaching the controversy." Here's all that needs to be said.

"Class, from time to time there are groups that object to evolution because it doesn't conform to their personal religious beliefs. Those objections have all been based on emotion and not reason, and have not had any scientific merit whatsoever."

End of lesson.

30 posted on 09/22/2005 8:29:01 AM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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