You're a dumb man, Bill Buckingham

[darch]

Some of you are likely aware that I spent November obsessing about the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Board case. To summarize the sumary of the summary: They amended the science standards to mandate that biology teachers inform students about the supposed "gaps" in evolution theory and the existence of "Intelligent Design". Parents who misliked

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[tiurin]

Probably tomorrow(as I am buried in grading tonight), I will be posting on the ID/Evo thing.

Effectively, I think people who do not think evolution is by far the best explanation can be grouped under:

a) Unintentionally ignorant
b) Intentionally ignorant
c) Willful denial
d) Outright stupidity.

Of these, only a) is excusable. There are a fair number of religious people under a) who come around.

[dolohov]

There's another group, too -- those people who've been emotionally blackmailed. They've been convinced that they can't both believe in God and, well, trust their senses. People tell them that evolution is tantamount to atheism, so they feel like they have to deny it (or at least give ID the benefit of a very generous doubt). I see a *lot* of that among Catholics.

[akiko]

But the Pope even says Intelligent Deisgn is nonsense and evolution is A-OK! Pope Palpatine even said it!

I know, I know, American Catholics are Different and weird.

[dolohov]

American Catholics are very different and very weird -- they seem to desperately want to be Evangelical Protestants. I'm under the impression that Americans are pretty much considered heretics by the rest of the church.

[dolohov]

From WaPo:
Former school board member William Buckingham, who advanced the policy, said from his new home in Mount Airy, N.C., that he still feels the board did the right thing.

"I'm still waiting for a judge or anyone to show me anywhere in the Constitution where there's a separation of church and state," he said. "We didn't lose; we were robbed."

[darch]

*loathe*