Quote of the Day

“I feel like if you give two sides of something, most people are intelligent enough to make up their own minds,” said Ryan Cole, a 26-year-old farmer and horse trainer from Smith County, along the Nebraska line.

Kansas had their school board primaries yesterday, and the fundi freak that had described evolution as “an age-old fairy tale” and “a nice bedtime story” unsupported by science lost her primary. The majority will be science supporters and not bat-shit-crazy-making-things-up supporters.

There still is 20 to 25 percent of the American population that will not acknowledge anything that contradicts the Bible, regardless how obvious the facts are. They are the types of people who say "teach both sides".

What Ryan Cole, 26 year old farmer and idiot, doesn't understand is that evolution is not a "theory". It is a fact. "Intelligent design" simply says that "God" created the natural order of things, which may or may not be true, but is meaningless conjecture better left to religious education, not science education. But, as simple as the idea of ID is, it is the motivation behind it that is dangerous.

As is par for the course, religious nutbags never do anything "good" without a sinister motive, and that motive usually entails recruiting more people into the cult in order to build their financial base. The minister has his eye on a 6 series BWM now, the crap 5 series just won't do anymore after all. In the case of ID, it's an inroad to hijacking the public schools, forcing Jebus down everyone's throat, because the fundis want to get their hooks into people when they're young.

In other words, it's really fucking stupid to want public education to "give two sides of something" when one of the "sides" is total made up bullshit. That's what private schools are for - a very expensive brainwashing into the cult of religion.