President Bush touched a MAJOR nerve with his rather innocuous comment about Intelligent Design. The Darwinists are going crazy and the liberal media has been hammering him over the head. It has been the number one topic on Technorati for about the last 24 hours. Google News is showing 230 articles on the subject.
If the scientific evidence is so strong in favor of the theory that the universe and humans evolved by chance from nothing, why would these Darwinists feel threatened by both theories being taught in a classroom?
Oh yeah, because it "smells" of religion. Someone grab a "SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!" sign. Thank goodness we're getting rid of Christianity in America.
The Darwinists have had a total monopoly in the classroom for decades and yet only 22% of Americans today believe that we evolved! And the number is decreasing every year.
(I will say that, somewhat surprisingly, so many of the blog entries throughout the day have been anti-ID, contrary to what one would expect according to the Harris Poll. Wonder what the Harris people have to say? I have no explanation...)
Similar to how the mercury-autism debate always turns political instead of sticking to science, the Intelligent Design/Evolution debate has turned from intellectually honest, "tolerant" scientific discussion to "those damn religious wackos want to force God on everyone" faster than a cilia can change directions! (If the cilia reference doesn't make any sense, it comes from Michael Behe's excellent book, "Darwin's Black Box".)
In reality, Darwinism is a faith that requires you to throw out reason and logic! We came from nothing? Deep in our hearts, we know it is untrue. But we want to believe it because if we came from nothing, we report to no one. But in our heart, we know that's not true either.
A little known fact is that there are numerous ex-Darwinist scientists that started down the path to ABSOLUTELY PROVE ONCE AND FOR ALL that we all came from nothing. Along the way, they found that this just couldn't be done and they became Christians because the Biblical record was more scientifically plausible than any other theory.
An excellent book for the layperson is "The Case for a Creator" by Lee Strobel.
PS - Is it any wonder that my nameless, faceless, east coast surgeon, arch-nemisis Orac has an anti-ID post up right now? Although, LaShawn Barber didn't settle for any of his babble. (See omments 62 and 63.) Orac, may the God you surely do not believe in bless you anyways.
