*”I lost my job at George Mason University for teaching the
problems with evolution. Lots of scientists question evolution, but they would
lose their jobs if they spoke out.”- Caroline Crocker, as quoted in the
Washington Post, February 5, 2006.
*”The only appropriate response should involve some form of
righteous fury, much butt-kicking, and the public firing of some teachers, many
school-board members, and vast numbers of sleazy far-right politicians…It’s
time for scientists to break out the steel-toed boots and brass knuckles, and
get out there and hammer on the lunatics and idiots.”- Paul Z. Myers,
University of Minnesota professor, in a typically tolerant, reasoned rant… that
clearly isn’t ‘hate speech!’
When a
teacher or public school decides to inform students that Darwinism is a theory,
not a proven fact, and opts to, say, teach both
evolution and creationism, Darwinists become apoplectic and usually manage to
have the decision declared unconstitutional.
Courts
have ruled that teaching intelligent design in public school classes violates the
Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States because, “intelligent design is not science” and "cannot uncouple
itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.” First off,
teaching the theory of intelligent design does not establish a religion.
Preventing that theory from being taught does, however, by
definition, prevent the free exercise of “religion” and abridges freedom of
speech. Secondly, if intelligent design is untrue and impossible simply because it is not “science,” that
leaves us in a bit of a lurch. “Science” did not create the universe, itself, or anything else.
Evolution
does not explain creation. By definition,
it is simply a theory about what came after.
Why
should this extreme hatred and intolerance of any skepticism or questioning of
the theory of evolution have come about? After all, this is supposedly science we’re talking about. Those are
vital aspects of the vaunted scientific method itself.
Perhaps it has ‘evolved’ as the best way to foster and preserve the Darwinists
power and esteem.
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”Molecular
machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible
complexity. In all irreducibly
complex systems in which the cause of the system is known by experience or
observation, intelligent design or engineering played a role in the origin of
the system…We find such systems within living organisms.”- Scott A. Minnich and
Stephen C. Meyer, Second International Conference on Design & Nature, 2004.
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