Judgement Day wins a Peabody

April 5th, 2008 • chatter

No, not that crazy “day of reckoning” that apocalyptists and most Christians think is always on the immediate horizon. I mean the series produced by NOVA/WGBH of the Dover, Pennsylvania trial that shot down — at least in Pennsylvania’s Middle District — Intelligent Design being proposed as a viable alternative to evolution and being taught in schools — again, at least in Pennsylvania’s Middle District. I applaud the NOVA crew for their award. I’m ready for this thing to come out on DVD. This and A Brief History of Disbelief.

Now I’m going to find the addresses to those boneheaded proponents of SB2692 here in Florida that their “academic freedom” crock of a bill is just that, a crock. They want to propose that Florida students, already not the brightest of kids, be taught “competing theories” to evolution. They don’t exactly mention what those other theories are by name explicitly (nor can they actually name one) but Sen. Storms sure makes it known she’s pro-ID and anti-science. For a bill that has “nothing to do with religion”, why are its biggest proponents culling Christians for support? With boilerplate text from the Discovery Institute, only Christian backers, and a “number of persecuted teachers who spoke out about weaknesses in evolution” (who’ve yet to be found for testimony), I’m not sure how this bill lacks any religious overtones…or credulity. Of the primary and secondary school kids I know, none of them are the most intelligent and signing in a bill that can let teachers espouse non-scientific gibberish as science is only more of a set back.

These kids are dumb enough, why are you trying to make them even more dumb, Senator Storms?