I'm amazed it took Slashdot (or anyone) twelve years to report on it. The very first report I wrote in high school - in 1996, as a freshman - was about the feminizing effects of environmental dioxins, and there was a meta-analysis showing the decline of global sperm counts even then. (And enough other data to fill several pages.) I've been warning people ever since, but it's nice to see the media finally catching up.
One further thing: It seems to me this entire ridiculous debate could be solved by having not religion in schools, but *religions*. Plural. Meaning, all of them. It sickens me that we indoctrinate our kids repeatedly about drugs, but don't give them the most basic knowledge to understand people of different faiths.
I agree wholeheartedly with ironwill96. This is just another case of scientific fundamentalists locking horns with religious fundamentalists. Neither side is willing to concede that it's possible both sides could be correct at the same time, even though any reasonable outsider can see that's obviously the case.
Creationism / intelligent design does not negate evolution, nor does evolution negate creationism / intelligent design, unless the person discussing either one is unnecessarily rigid about it. The bible wasn't meant to be read that way, and the scientific method wasn't meant to be abused that way either. Both science and religion should be about revealing truth, not gainsaying the beliefs of others like a four-year-old saying "No it isn't" over and over again.
I do a lot of computer repair in my spare time - four days a week in addition to my regular job - and every time I encounter a computer that was "repaired" by the Geek Squad, their work never ceases to underwhelm me. As far as I can tell, Best Buy bought the Geeks on Call franchise and turned it into their own personal commercial army; all I've ever seen the Geek Squad do is overcharge, sell Norton Internet Security (which doesn't even work very well) to home users who didn't need it, and give out incorrect information to clients who don't know better. Someone at a Best Buy store even tried to convince one of my clients that a computer with 256 MB of RAM wouldn't be able to handle DSL; whether he was deliberately lying or just horribly trained, I don't know.
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I'm amazed it took Slashdot (or anyone) twelve years to report on it. The very first report I wrote in high school - in 1996, as a freshman - was about the feminizing effects of environmental dioxins, and there was a meta-analysis showing the decline of global sperm counts even then. (And enough other data to fill several pages.) I've been warning people ever since, but it's nice to see the media finally catching up.
One further thing: It seems to me this entire ridiculous debate could be solved by having not religion in schools, but *religions*. Plural. Meaning, all of them. It sickens me that we indoctrinate our kids repeatedly about drugs, but don't give them the most basic knowledge to understand people of different faiths.
I agree wholeheartedly with ironwill96. This is just another case of scientific fundamentalists locking horns with religious fundamentalists. Neither side is willing to concede that it's possible both sides could be correct at the same time, even though any reasonable outsider can see that's obviously the case. Creationism / intelligent design does not negate evolution, nor does evolution negate creationism / intelligent design, unless the person discussing either one is unnecessarily rigid about it. The bible wasn't meant to be read that way, and the scientific method wasn't meant to be abused that way either. Both science and religion should be about revealing truth, not gainsaying the beliefs of others like a four-year-old saying "No it isn't" over and over again.
I do a lot of computer repair in my spare time - four days a week in addition to my regular job - and every time I encounter a computer that was "repaired" by the Geek Squad, their work never ceases to underwhelm me. As far as I can tell, Best Buy bought the Geeks on Call franchise and turned it into their own personal commercial army; all I've ever seen the Geek Squad do is overcharge, sell Norton Internet Security (which doesn't even work very well) to home users who didn't need it, and give out incorrect information to clients who don't know better. Someone at a Best Buy store even tried to convince one of my clients that a computer with 256 MB of RAM wouldn't be able to handle DSL; whether he was deliberately lying or just horribly trained, I don't know.