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Jason Spaceman



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(Permalink) Posted: Dec. 17 2005,17:11   

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The United States is, by any standards, the leading scientific nation in the history of the world. Yet this unprecedented powerhouse of scientific achievement is being dragged down in derision, in the eyes of the entire educated world, by the preposterous antics on display at the Kansas Board of Education and threatening other boondocks of local democracy. A second-rate mathematician, a mediocre biochemist, a born-again retired lawyer and a Moonie have somehow succeeded in elevating themselves, in the eyes of influential but ignorant politicians, rich benefactors and duped laymen, to near parity with the entire National Academy. How has it been allowed to happen? When will this great country come to its senses and rejoin the civilized world?


Read it here.

   
MidnightVoice



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(Permalink) Posted: Dec. 19 2005,03:10   

I rather liked:

To the extent that creationists allow their un-evolved supernatural designer to have sprung into existence ab initio, they should allow natural agents the same dubious privilege. Intelligent design is not only bad science; it is bad logic, bad philosophy and even—as my theologian friends point out—bad theology.

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If I fly the coop some time
And take nothing but a grip
With the few good books that really count
It's a necessary trip

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The girl with the pearl-driller's hands

  
Alan Fox



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(Permalink) Posted: Dec. 19 2005,07:11   

Thanks Jason

Would have missed this otherwise. Vintage Dawkins!

  
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