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oneirophreniaFrom a great article on Boston.com entitled "God vs. Darwin: no contest".
''Intelligent design" boils down to the claim sarcastically summed up by aerospace engineer and science consultant Rand Simberg on his blog, Transterrestrial Musings: ''I'm not smart enough to figure out how this structure could evolve, therefore there must have been a designer." Simberg, a political conservative, concludes that this argument ''doesn't belong in a science classroom, except as an example of what's not science."
The example of The Flying Spaghetti Monster has gotten me to thinking: If the whole "intelligent design" bullshit comes up around here in Fayette County, I'm going to severely pressure the local schoolboards to accept and teach the "Old One" origin of man as detailed in H. P. Lovecraft's brilliant "novel" (which was actually 100% true, of course), "At the Mountains of Madness." I mean, hey...it's just as reasonable!
''Intelligent design" boils down to the claim sarcastically summed up by aerospace engineer and science consultant Rand Simberg on his blog, Transterrestrial Musings: ''I'm not smart enough to figure out how this structure could evolve, therefore there must have been a designer." Simberg, a political conservative, concludes that this argument ''doesn't belong in a science classroom, except as an example of what's not science."
The example of The Flying Spaghetti Monster has gotten me to thinking: If the whole "intelligent design" bullshit comes up around here in Fayette County, I'm going to severely pressure the local schoolboards to accept and teach the "Old One" origin of man as detailed in H. P. Lovecraft's brilliant "novel" (which was actually 100% true, of course), "At the Mountains of Madness." I mean, hey...it's just as reasonable!
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Date: 2005-08-10 12:48 pm (UTC)amen, brotha! seriously - if they want intelligent design, a non-scientifically valid theory - taught in schools, they're opening the floodgates for all kinds of crazy/sci-fi/lovecraftian ideas...