{"id":405,"date":"2005-11-09T01:08:46","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T08:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2005-11-09T01:12:18","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T08:12:18","slug":"kansas-brings-america-to-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/09\/kansas-brings-america-to-new-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas brings America to new low"},"content":{"rendered":"

From MSNBC.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\nTOPEKA, Kan. – Risking the kind of nationwide ridicule it faced six years ago, the Kansas Board of Education approved new public-school science standards Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.<\/p>\n

The 6-4 vote was a victory for \u201cintelligent design\u201d advocates who helped draft the standards. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power.
\n…
\nJohn Calvert, a retired attorney who helped found the Intelligent Design Network, said \u201cThese changes are not targeted at changing the hearts and minds of the Darwin fundamentalists.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It takes a fundamentalist to spot another, I suppose.<\/p>\n

All of this supposes that the higher power in question, however, was this much of a stickler for details. Think about it – what do most people want the most of in their lives? Simplicity. Not some hugely involved millions-of-layers-deep master plan, they strive to remove the complications from their lives. Now, if said higher power created Man in His \/ Her image, why aren’t we looking for more complex solutions rather than slimming down?<\/p>\n

Seems to me that any being with that much power wouldn’t want to spend several BILLION years in the largest QA session ever. There wouldn’t be thousands of species of insects to carry out the job of plant pollenation, there would be one. There wouldn’t be thousands of breeds of animals constructed for the purpose of keeping those insect populations in check; the insects would simply only breed as necessary. <\/p>\n

And what about all the nuisance insects and animals? You want to tell me the mosquito has a divine purpose? The flea? That God really sat down one day and said, “You know, what we really need now are some blood-sucking, disease-mongering petilences. It should be damned annoying when they bite, too.”<\/p>\n

Is this the kind of God you want?<\/p>\n

Other creatures are fairly easy to explain under ID: the Creator got stoned. Look at the sloth, for instance. A creature that is so sedentary moss<\/em> grows on it. Then there’s the platypus – obviously, God had some spare parts lying around and just kind of jumbled them up. “Hey, let’s really screw with their minds! I’ll make it a mammal, but it lays eggs! *snorffle* Hey, don’t bogart the bong, man!”<\/p>\n

Was God high, or was it Evolution? My bet is for Darwin. You don’t agree, that’s fine – just keep your arguments out of my children’s schools and in the Church where it belongs. When you can come up with an idea that actually satisfies the definition of theory<\/em>, then you can talk to me.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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