February 11, 2005

Bush's USA: Ignorant By Design?

This carefully-written BBC report on a US school's challenge to Darwinism describes a quite incredible debate in Bush's USA. From an outsider's point of view, it is quite astonishing that US bible-bashers would want to turn their backs on hundreds of years of scientific study, then inflict that ignorance on their children and their grandchildren. But in the town of Dover, South Pennsylvania, more than half the population want to teach their kids that Darwin's theory of evolution is "just a theory", while their creationist Intelligent Design is "an explanation of the origin of life".

Here's a thought. Do you really think God wants us all to be wilfully ignorant?
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2 comments:

Wadard said...

The dumbing down continues ....

By the way, when did Jesus say abortion was wrong? If he said all killing is wrong then the only life without sin would be the plant Kingdom give or take a venus fly-trap or two who, now doubt, could try and cash in on carbon trading units in their quest for eternal life.

Personally I vier the church as the enemy of knowledge. It is no coincidence that their decline in power co-incided with what is historically known as "the Enlightenment". They have been on the wane ever since, but occasionally you get splutterings back too the idea of the world ordered according to the Book. It can't last, knowledge wants to be free.

6:21 pm
Wadard said...

Like the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Scrolls revealing what the Roman Catholic Church tried to purge from the rrecord of hummanity. Didn't work did it? laid low until the age was ready for contention and the Dead Sea Scrolls emerged into the light, and we see how different the Catholics are to the religion that Jesus preached. No holy trinity, no cross. Go the Gnostics .... life is to be exeriencedd, not feared. Knowledge wants to be free!!!

Like how knowledge used the humble vehicle of Dan Brown to rise Phoenix-like to reveal what the Catholic church tried to destroy in the Albiginsean Crusades

6:56 pm

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