Louisiana Confounds the Science Thought Police - Neo-Darwinism is no longer a protected orthodoxy...

National Review Online ^ | July 08, 2008 | John G. West

[neverdem]

Since the topic is scientific heresy, how about the constant harping of low fat diets and our obesity epidemic?

Carbohydrate restriction improves the features of Metabolic Syndrome. Metabolic Syndrome may be defined by the response to carbohydrate restriction

[steve-b]

Perhaps the most egregious example in American history was the eugenics movement

Yes, we've seen the dangers of supposing life to be susceptible to Intelligent Design....

[TexasKate]

Anything that creates doubt about evolution is ok with me.

[MrB]

That is a huge point -

exactly what harm comes from a belief in an eternal Creator to which you will be held to account?

What harm comes from believing that humans are beings created specifically in His image as eternal souls instead of an accident of genetic mutation, no different than animals?

[11th Commandment]

I can't believe that anyone would allow debate on Global Warming. This is settled science. If fact Global Warming should not be taught in the science class, it should be taught in Social Studies so the factual impact of a warmer earth can be studied.

By the way, I'm being sarcastic.

[Jim Robinson]

Just wait until the population explosion. You’ll be sorry, you doubter you.

[MrB]

And, don’t forget, the conclusions that must be reached due to the fact of Global Warming -

we must all reduce our lifestyle, destroy our economy, and relinquish our individual liberty

in order to “solve” the problem.

Just as “there is no need for a Creator, or a need to be accountable to that Creator, since we weren’t Created, we evolved.”

[MrB]

I assume you’re being sarcastic -

but, even with illegals’ birthrates calculated in,

USA’s birthrate is 1.9, and the replacement rate is 2.1.

[George - the Other]

John G. West is an idiot.

[steve-b]

Plenty, if it bolsters (for example) the belief that you’re supposed to kill infidels so that your final “account” will read “You Win 72 Virgins”.

[onewhowatches]

Mind you, this also means that science teachers will be free to preach that evolution is disproof of God. Academic freedom, after all.

I'd make a small bet that, even in Louisiana, there are more science teachers willing to preach atheism than ID.

[muleskinner]

The only thing the Discovery Institute has come up with to try and disprove evolution are some rhetorical shenanigans. IOW, a big pile of steaming B.S.

[Philly Nomad]

Outside of Science, there’s no harm at all. But inside of science you’ll have to subjugate God to all the same standards and tests that any other theory has. Cause/Effect, replication, etc...

[ASA Vet]

[Aquinasfan]

There really is nothing like dogmatic empiricists, especially empiricists with little evidence to support their dogmas.

Anyway, congratulations to Louisiana! May the intellectual dam of Darwinism burst wide open.

[MrB]

And your argument might have some merit if you attempt to force a moral equivalency of Christianity and Islam.

[Aquinasfan]

Since the topic is scientific heresy, how about the constant harping of low fat diets and our obesity epidemic?

There is a correlation between low fat/high carb diets and the current diabetes epidemic. You'd think that such a correlation would be of interest to scientists. The public has been out ahead (at least a decade or two) of the medical community on this one.

[Aquinasfan]

Since the topic is scientific heresy, how about the constant harping of low fat diets and our obesity epidemic?

There is a correlation between low fat/high carb diets and the current diabetes epidemic. You'd think that such a correlation would be of interest to scientists. The public has been out ahead (at least a decade or two) of the medical community on this one.

[Non-Sequitur]

Anything that creates doubt about evolution is ok with me.

Then by all means let's add the Flying Spaghetti Monster to the discussion. It's a form of Intelligent Design.

[MrB]

Strange, the absolute certainty that there is no Creator, in itself is a religious belief,

is not subject to the scientific rigor that you propose -

it’s simply stated as true through the “proof by arrogant condescension.”