Saturday, November 05, 2005

I don't believe my ancestor was a monkey

An interesting trial is wrapping up down in Harrisburg. Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District is being touted as the 21st century's Scope's Monkey Trial. It puts on trial the theory of Intelligent Design, which its critics decry is just plain old creationism, which is not science but faith.
The problem is that so much of science is faith and ideology. No one in modern science was alive at the beginning of time so we rely on theory of how things happen, instead of observable evidence. That when things get dicey.
There is no reason why ID can't be put forth as another theory alongside evolution. But the evolution facists won't have it. Their anti-religion relativism is totally dependent on the quelching of free debate, and the treatment of Darwin's theory as fact, which, of course is intellectually dishonest. All the Dover school directors wanted to do is read four paragraphs ninth graders before diving into weeks of evolution education, correctly referring to evolution as "not fact" and another theory is ID, and that they actually had a ID textbook in the school library.
The evolutionists own college campuses, the textbook companies, the professional journals, the media. It won't let some backwater school board in rural PA breach their thought police.
Whoever loses in Harrisburg vows to bring the debate all the way up to the US Supreme Court.