Yep: a title change for these posts. I figure if I name them after a day of the week, there’s at least a one in seven chance of me actually getting the article up on the right day. Hopefully every Wednesday (which is weird anyhow, because it’s spelled funny) you can expect some new oddities. And this works out perfectly: since this column is evolving (certainly, my writing isn’t intelligently designed), it is only fitting that the topic for the week is evolution.
If It’s Called Intelligent Design, Why Do Only Stupid People Want it Taught?
Listen, you can believe all the strange things you want: if you think that a higher intelligence created us, great. But that’s not science (in fact, you’ve just deferred the problem, since you’ll then need to answer “who designed the designer,” but I digress) and it should not be taught in science classes, unless it is taught as a cautionary tale of how NOT to do science.
The Double Dumb-asses
- The Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center: Should be renamed “The Stupid Nonsense Awareness Center.” Give me one hypothesis to test, please!
- Bush weighs into evolution debate: wow, if such an intellectual heavyweight as George W. Bush buys into intelligent design, it must be true. Just like the WMDs in Iraq!
- Kansas Board Advances a Draft Critical of Evolution: Ah, good old Kansas. I hear they think the world is flat, too.
- Intelligent design is sorely misunderstood: This guys sorely misunderstands what science is.
For ID to be successful as science, it needs to provide some actual testable hypotheses. Anything that the scientific method can be applied to. Anything. Please.
The Lights in the Darkness
- It’s not science if it can’t be tested or measured
- The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design
- Talk.origins Archive: some great information on evolution.
Personally, I think the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster who wields the awesome power of His Noodly Appendage. This theory clearly explains many things we observe.
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Tickled that we were able to convert to FSMism an entire week before it hit the local paper and became common knowledge. ;) How on earth do you find this stuff?
August 20th, 2005 at 7:23 pm |
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