Evolution: Evidence has been provided - a shitload of evidence - to back this theory. Scientists call it a theory because if they found evidence contradicting their theory, they would look at that new evidence and try to figure out what the real truth is. As Richard Dawkins has stated “there are few if any scientific theories that have more evidence than Evolution does.”
Intelligent Design: No evidence. No data. Just an idea - “Hey, maybe some godlike being started it all! Maybe God created evolution”.
This goes against what the Bible says, but hey, lets ignore that for awhile. As a friend of mine says ‘well people don’t take the Bible literally anymore’. Well if you don’t take the part about the world being 6000 years old, Adam and Eve, Noah or whatever literally, then maybe people shouldn’t take the idea of God, Jesus and Heaven literally. Right?
The problem is Schools are trying to teach Intelligent Design along with Evolution. The last sentence of the linked article is simply… amazing.
In August, President Bush endorsed teaching intelligent design alongside evolution.
And this reminds me of a H.L. Mencken quote:
When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost… All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.‘ The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Woohoo! That day is today!
There is a point to my ranting. The issue here is that people want to put a theory alongside evolution/The Big Bang that has absolutely no evidence to back it. This is most ridiculous. Most ridiculous. So… I say we all make up our own theories, and submit them to school boards and textbooks publishers. I want my theory alongside ID and Evolution. My personal theory is that a big dog made up pudding was the only object in existence before the Universe. One of his toes was cut off by a ninja star, the dog then pee’d on it as it fell through space, and his ever so potent urine made his toe explode into the stars and planets we have today.
Now, ignore the fact that I said there was only the Pudding Dog in existence when a ninja star came into the picture, and ignore that without anything in existence than the dog, there would be no gravity other than that generated by the Dog. So when the toe would have been cut off, it would have fallen towards the dog and stuck to him, not fallen down (where is down when there are no other objects in existence but a dog made of pudding and a ninja star?). The Bible does this stuff all the time and no one seems to care. An important side note: it has been almost 20 years since I took a science class. Am I wrong about the dog generating its own gravity if no other objects were around. Guess what, if I am - I will say thanks to whoever proves me wrong. This is how people should think. The danger of Religion is that it does NOT promote this type of thinking at all…but I digress.
Now I just need to find out where to submit my theory. Maybe if a million (or 10, or 100…) people all did this and mailed their theories to book publishers and school boards, people would realize how absolutely …. (shit I cannot think of a synonym for ’stupid’ that is powerful enough to really convey how moronic this is)…Intelligent Design is. To close, I think everyone should read this Richard Dawkins quote. It explains the essence of what Science is. (Link to video of the quote, if you are interested.)
Science is about testing, comparing, corroborating this massive evidence. And using it to update old theories of how things work.
I do remember one formative influence in my undergraduate life. There was an elderly professor in my department who had been passionately keen on a particular theory for, oh! a number of years! And one day a visiting American researcher came and he completely and utterly disproved our old man’s hypothesis. The old man strode to the front, shook his hand and said, my dear fellow, I wish to thank you! I have been wrong these 15 years!
And we all clapped our hands raw! That was the scientific ideal. Of somebody who had a lot invested, a lifetime almost invested in a particular theory and he was rejoicing that he had been shown wrong and that scientific truth had been advanced.
There is no testing, no comparing, no corroborating of evidence with Intelligent Design. There is NO evidence!
My Dog O’ Pudding idea will look great in print, don’t you think?
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