(October 10, 2012 at 4:04 pm)Annik Wrote: If they make it look like a religion, then it's not science and they don't need to feel like idiots for not understanding it.
Exactly. This is what really gets me about this whole creationism thing. First they insist that evolution(ism) is a religion, so it's unconstitutional to teach it in public schools. Then without even drawing breath, they insist that creationism/Idiotic Design is just as scientific as evolution, so it's unfair to keep it out of public schools. I wish I was strawmanning this, but it's right there in plain view; they're not even embarrassed by it. Just glance at a random page (they're all pretty random anyway) in Kent "single-cell animal" Hovind's comedy thesis, it's his pet obsession.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
