"Intelligent Design": Stealth War on Science

Revolutionary Worker ^ | November 6, 2005

[Tailgunner Joe]

Why do you think they call it "the Anti-Christian Lawyers Union?"

[ClearCase_guy]

why the hell is the ACLU jumping into this issue?

The Anti-Christian Lawyers Union lives for these cases.

[georgfelis]

As the dependent of a Kansas Science Teacher, I feel it is my responsibility to splash a little cold water of Reality upon the over hyped war that Science is waging against Intelligent Design.

I have yet to meet a member of the “whole Christian Fascist movement in the United States that has power and prominence in the government, from the Bush regime on down.” As a mater of fact, I bump into more Nuts from the other end, such as those who say "Evolution is a concept that applies to all sciences, from astronomy to chemistry to geology to biology to anthropology.” Now how you can get Evolution to work on Geology or even Chemistry is far beyond my limited knowledge, but sounds a little far-fetched. Even the name acknowledges the basis behind it: Theory of Evolution. Not the Absolute Fact of Evolution. Theory.

Admittedly this article appears from a website that believes the Bush administration are war criminals, and advocates that Communism just needs another couple hundred million people to die and they’ll get it right this time. However I have heard similar arguments frothing through our Kansas newspapers with similar themes, all of which boil down to the end of Civilization as we know it should our children ever get the tiniest hint that the entire Universe, all billions and billions of stars, planets, oceans, whales and the occasional human are not just accidental random combinations.

--Georg

[ClearCase_guy]

Beat me.

[VadeRetro]

You are the one who agrees with these commies 100%.

Are you just ignoring the inconvenent points? You are the embarrassment here. I do not agree with commies, except that idiot Luddites should not be trying to sneak indefensible nonsense into science class. I agree with that, as disagreeing would require surrendering my brain at the door as you seem to have done.

This is probably the only issue the commies will ever have that can't lose. This is the one you gave them.

Way to go!

[metmom]

"Last year, the Dover city school board instituted a policy that requires high school biology teachers to read a statement to students that says Darwin's theory of evolution is "not a fact" and then notes that intelligent design offers an alternative theory for the origin and evolution of life--namely, that life in all of its complexity could not have arisen without the help of an "intelligent hand." Some teachers refused to read the statement, citing the Pennsylvania teacher code of ethics, which says, "I will never knowingly present false information to a student.""


And where is the evidence that evolution was undirected? Who decided that that is the truth? Who decided that directed evolution is a lie and why? It seems to me that it takes as much faith to believe in undirected evolution as it does for directed because it's a matter of believing something that cannot be tested.

[VOA]

bump

[metmom]

He sure has Christians all figured out, hasn't he. Especially that they are all "fascists" (which he repeated at least three times.) He really set the tone of the article with that first paragraph, didn't he. He forgot "knuckle-dragging".

[Fester Chugabrew]

Science generally operates on the principle that the universe is comprised of intelligible and designed features, and uses intelligent design to create and test hypotheses. It certainly is not unreasonable to consider that, where nature behaves like a maching, intelligent design may be involved. Science in general does not state a-priori, what it can or cannot hypothesize or test. Certain folks who have an agenda of their own, however, whether openly or by stealth, would like to use science as a way to promote their own philosophy.

[Roots]

Are you just ignoring the inconvenent points? You are the embarrassment here. I do not agree with commies, except that idiot Luddites should not be trying to sneak indefensible nonsense into science class. I agree with that, as disagreeing would require surrendering my brain at the door as you seem to have done.

This is probably the only issue the commies will ever have that can't lose. This is the one you gave them.

Way to go!

I agree VadeRetro, and that's coming from a student who one day will oppose sending their child to Biology class to learn about aliens, Flying Spaghetti Man and any other "myths" thrown into the ring to bastardize rational thought.

[Tailgunner Joe]

I'm not embarrassed at all to be hated by commies.

You are the one who should be embarrassed by the fact that you sound exactly like them.

[Chi-townChief]

Revolutionary Worker, my ass - Bob Avakian is a Nazi!!

[VadeRetro]

Don't tell anybody, but FSM is a joke. However, being suggestible, I do eat more pasta since all this started.

[so_real]

This article loses my interest in the first sentence ... "A president who consults religious lunatics about who should be on the Supreme Court" ... yeah, no bias there.

[Borges]

Dude this article is from a Communist publication.

[VadeRetro]

I'm not embarrassed at all to be hated by commies.

You should be embarrassed to be doing a bad thing and giving the commies an issue to sound righteous. You can pretend not to understand this all night. Stay stupid. I'm outta here.

You are the one who should be embarrassed by the fact that you sound exactly like them.

Anyone who can see your nonsense has no place in science class will sound the same to you. That's anyone with a brain.

[Torie]

Teaching Intelligent Design in the schools is part of a whole Christian Fascist movement in the United States that has power and prominence in the government, from the Bush regime on down.

No sign of understatement in the above. The author must not be British. There are so many barbarians at so many gates.

[Jacobis]

http://faithfacts.gospelcom.net//evolution.html

[jec1ny]

This is a rare moment where I agree with the point... if not the style of a liberal article. Creationism and so called intelligent design are a blatant attempt to inject religion into science classes. Nice to see another voice for sanity in here. We will both take some heat for this view but oh well.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Sorry pal, but I'm the one who thinks it's the government which has no place in science class.

Maybe you "evos" will learn how Christians have felt for decades and try to support the separation of school and state, but I doubt it. Forcing your dogmatic faith to be taught to the nation's children is more important to you than limiting the size and scope of government.