St. Vic's Home for Unclean Ramblings

"New legal threat to teaching evolution in the US"
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926643.300

Let's get our concepts and terminology correct here: Intelligent design is not science -- as a most generous definition, it is philosophy, and therefore it is not appropriate to be placed in the same educational context as science, and in this specific case with evolution. ID does not follow the rigors of the scientific method, does not produce scientific research and results, and cannot be consistently verified through controlled experiments. Its reliance on the notion of a supernatural agent (i.e. god(s)) is not scientific -- by its very nature, that agent is erratic and unverifiable. The bible and any other religious documents are not a scientific documents. Faith and belief are not scientific principles. The word "theory" does not mean unproven or philosophically posited, as it is often erroneously used by the public where they would be more correct using "hypothetical."

I'm sorry, Mr and Mrs Religious Public, if you don't like the ideas of evolution, but that's too bad. Your beliefs are different from fact. At one time people thought the sun revolved around the earth because that's what the bible inferred. People thought that women were unclean during menstruation, and that demons lived in our bodies. Science is not always obvious or the same as "common sense," and that's okay. But democracy and discussion doesn't invalidate scientific fact. Specialists and experts exist to answer questions and ask more so that we further our knowledge. Your preacher most likely is not a scientist or an expert in biology. What's next? Someone challenging mathematics? Does your god say that 1 + 1 doesn't equate to 2? Or you find some particular personal affront in the integral of e to the x?

Get over it. The rest of the larger world is laughing at us because of your blind and misguided views. We're all missing the wonders of life and the universe because you disagree with facts. Shame on you.