Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design?

Funksaw writes "Here's an op-ed by first-time politician, long-time Slashdotter Brian Boyko, where he talks about his experiences testifying at the Texas Board of Education in favor of having real science in science textbooks. But beyond that, he also tries to examine, philosophically, why there is such hardened resistance to the idea of evolution in Texas. From the article: '[W]hat is true is that evolution tests faith. The fact of evolution is incontrovertible and supported by mounds of empirical evidence. Faith, on the other hand, is fragile. It is supported only by the strength of human will. And this is where it gets tricky. Because to many believers, faith, not works, is the only guarantee that one can pass God's litmus test and gain access to His divine kingdom. To lose one's faith is to literally damn oneself. So tests to that faith must be avoided at all costs. Better to be a philosophical coward than a theological failure.'"

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[Cryacin]

If God did create us, how bad an engineer do you have to be to put a sewage outlet right in the middle of a recreational area?

Re:But I don't know the real answer!

[Anonymous Coward]

Are we still talking about theists or did we switch over to business consultants?

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[neonmonk]

Sex is for procreation not recreation! Sinner!

Re:I disagree.

[Anonymous Coward]

So to sum up: They're stupid.

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[Anonymous Coward]

The problems is that users have also been finding recreation in that sewage outlet in ways said engineer had not intended.

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[Capsaicin]

If God did create us, how bad an engineer do you have to be to put a sewage outlet right in the middle of a recreational area?

You can hardly blame God for that. God merely created us in his own image ... blame the engineer who designed God!

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[kh31d4r]

Or at least one without Apple.

Re:God of the Gaps

[TheRaven64]

Superstition is the nonsense other people believe, faith is the nonsense I believe.

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[Sockatume]

It's ancient aliens all the way up.

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[Big Hairy Ian]

Smiting??? Ahhh you mean percussive maintenance :)

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[Sockatume]

That's the sound I made while watching Prometheus.

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[cas2000]

> who puts child production/care next to waste treatement plants?

Libertarians, because regulations are evil.

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[dreamchaser]

Take a look at a platypus sometime. I mean, the damn things are basically beavers with webbed feed and a duck's bill. And they lay eggs. It's like he took all the left over bits from other creations and just tossed them together in a salad bowl.

Or, as Robin Williams postulated, the platypus is proof that God smokes pot. [youtube.com]

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[Adult film producer]

Ezekial 23:20 - There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Re:Faith and evolution ARE compatible

[tekrat]

Why is it so hard to accept that human beings evolved from goo? Have you looked inside a human body? Dude, we're *still* goo!

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[Anonymous Coward]

You raise your kids your way, and I'll raise mine my way.

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[GameboyRMH]

Actually the way the anus and prostate are arranged is very convenient for male-on-male buttsex...what's up with that, God? Huh?

"Oh you better not stick your weener in another guy's pooper, but I'll put some fun bits in there and make some of you guys sexually attracted to men. Trololololol!"

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[Zero__Kelvin]

" What has been found is that the "Old Testament" was kept very rigorlessly and was virtually unchanged after centuries. "

Well if they did so as rigorlessly as you I stand corrected!