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Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional
An anonymous reader writes "MSNBC reports that a judge in Atlanta, GA has ruled that a sticker placed on all textbooks in Cobb County stating that 'Evolution is a theory, not a fact,' is unconstitutional, and ordered that all stickers be removed."
The Intelligent Design movement has opened my eyes. I realize that although I believe that evolution explains why the living world is the way it is, I can't actually prove it. At least not to the satisfaction of the ID folk, who seem to require that every example of extraordinary complexity and clever plumbing in nature be fully traced back (not just traceable back) along an evolutionary tree to prove that it wasn't directed by an invisible hand. If the scientific community won't do that, then the arguments goes that they must accept a large red "theory" stamp placed on the evolution textbooks and that alternative theories, such as "guided" evolution and creationism, be taught alongside.
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So, by this standard, virtually everything I believe in must now fall under the shadow of unproveability. Most importantly, this includes the belief that democracy, capitalism and other market-driven systems (including evolution!) are better than their alternatives. Indeed, I suppose I should now refer to them as the "theory of democracy" and the "theory of capitalism", to join the theory of evolution, and accept the teaching of living Marxism and fascism as alternatives in high schools.
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CHRIS W. ANDERSON
Editor-In-Chief, Wired
I think chris explains it elequently.Furthermore what i find is that people tend to believe that the world is too "perfect" for life to arrive any other way, or that unless you can completely know the answer to how life arrived here, that "invisible hand" must have had some part. But i purpose that not all questions can be answered, and that people use some rationality. but for course explaining the world around you with something that cannot be understood or explained itself by, isnt rational. ID is an escape hatch for those who cannot deny the obviousness of evolution but don't want to give up their need to belief in God and, ergo, an afterlife.
Where was your precious magical being in the sky on boxing day?
What terrible sin did those 150,000+ people commit, that DEMANDED they be killed for?
Where are the people that not only refuse to help, but should be celebrating the deaths of all these people?
Honestly I hate to break it to you, there is no Santa, there is no Easter Bunny, and there certainly is no g-d.
> If things get somewhat heated I am tempted to say "there is no mention in the scriptures stating the Book of Genesis is a scientific paper."
Well, it isn't. It was written way before the current scientific process was developed; plus, it was written with a global audience in mind, not a highly trained audience. If it had been a scientific paper then it would have been meaningless until recently and would have failed in its objective to give people an outline on how God created the world.
Unfortunately, most of teh 2236 comments probably consist of "I'm right and you're a piece of crap".
--pete