I have a few questions for the intelligent design crowd. How does I.D. explain schizophrenia? Childhood cancers? Muscular dystrophy and a thousand other things we would be much better off without? The evolutionary model explains it. Mutations happen and there is overwhelming evidence for it. Is your fallback position something about God testing our faith? Why does he present tests of character he knows the outcome of in advance? Intelligent design is creationism in a cheap suit, and a concept unsupported by any kind of objective evidence. Conservative Christians just can't leave God out of anything. For I.D. to be true, almost everything we think we know about the life sciences has to be wrong.
To which I say, without blinking, HORSE SHIT! I have to take a guess and say that no one considering that bill is even remotely aware of the case of Kitzmiller v Dover, wherein Intelligent Design was so utterly and thoroughly SCRAPPED that one could pick up the pieces with an eyedropper. West Virginia's high school ranking is already near the bottom of the barrel at #42. Apparently, they really want to go for 50.
Or, more likely, they are yielding what authority they have to the Christian nationalists of the Mountain State because ... reasons? Regardless, they are doing the children of West Virginia a considerable disservice, never mind opening themselves up to yet more litigation regarding the teaching of pseudo-science.
"If this revised bill passes, their science teacher still couldnβt discuss Intelligent Design in class."
It won't stop them from trying. Dressing up creationism as (un)intelligent design just makes it science-y sounding, and they think that is real science, because of the decades of science denialism that is clouding their understanding.
They so desperately want evolution to be wrong in order to maintain their status as God's special snowflakes that they will do anything to be allowed to lie to children about what science has actually discovered.
All right class we will be discussing how the massive Jotun Ymir became the worldand the nine realms. What? It's how the universe came into being. What do you mean "not like that"?
Keep chipping away at the education system, you will only get stupider and stupider representatives in your government who will propose bills like this that donβt actually change the laws or do what they think they do. Keep wasting everyoneβs time and taxes on ineffective, ludicrous, religious territory markings. Itβs not like it causes issues and drags down the state, or anything.
This is the government we get when we let the FOP run roughshod over the fucking constitution as we have been doing. This is not what we deserve, this is what weβve been modeled into accepting.
Intelligent design may explain how humanity came to be, but it doesn't explain how the designer was so stupid that he decided to run the ureter from the kidney to the penis in men through the prostate gland, or why the prostate gland swells as men get older, making it harder and harder to urinate-- the urination, not the penis -- and it can kill you if it gets bad enough.
Prostate glands are proof positive that intelligent design is a myth.
The same fucking jesus that gave me a clogged arteries cuz I seldom eat meat. The same jeezy that made me diabetic and gave me numb feet wracked with intense pain. Bladder and prostate cancer. The same evil jesus that made me gay and then pushes a book calling for my murder. FUCK YOU VERY MUCH jeezybitch!!!
Even in the scriptures the intelligent designer kept messing up. Humans bad - evict from garden; everything bad - make flood; language/architecture bad - make Babel. Moving on: humans bad - make Jesus - still bad - kill Jesus. C'mon.
If there is an Intelligent Designer (spoiler alert: nope) they get a F in creating religion because religion is an underlying cause in many of the worldβs ills, see also war, inquisition, crusades, Holocaust, P01135809
It's hilarious because everyone knows they just want to have their religion taught. They know it, we know it, everyone knows it. But they carry on pretending like it's not, and they all know that each of their others are all lying. It's like a mass lying hysteria, except that they are fully self-aware of it.
I don't know the exact percentages, but a lot of Christians, Muslims, and Jews happily reconcile evolution and their faith, so really ID is only there for fundamentalists who refuse to see the evidence in front of them and continue believing that God is a liar who made a six thousand year-old universe appear to be a 14.5 billion year-old one because he likes to yank our chains.
I understand that fundamentalism is easier because you don't have to think. You just think the way you're told to think and say, "nun-uh" to anything that contradicts what you've been told. But grow up. Deal with facts. Wrestle with your holy books. Test everything, hold on to what is true.
If that leads you from fundie to Lutheran or Methodist or atheist or agnostic humanist, so be it.
A good god doesn't expect you to reject the evidence.
I have a few questions for the intelligent design crowd. How does I.D. explain schizophrenia? Childhood cancers? Muscular dystrophy and a thousand other things we would be much better off without? The evolutionary model explains it. Mutations happen and there is overwhelming evidence for it. Is your fallback position something about God testing our faith? Why does he present tests of character he knows the outcome of in advance? Intelligent design is creationism in a cheap suit, and a concept unsupported by any kind of objective evidence. Conservative Christians just can't leave God out of anything. For I.D. to be true, almost everything we think we know about the life sciences has to be wrong.
Second verse. Same as the first.
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To which I say, without blinking, HORSE SHIT! I have to take a guess and say that no one considering that bill is even remotely aware of the case of Kitzmiller v Dover, wherein Intelligent Design was so utterly and thoroughly SCRAPPED that one could pick up the pieces with an eyedropper. West Virginia's high school ranking is already near the bottom of the barrel at #42. Apparently, they really want to go for 50.
Or, more likely, they are yielding what authority they have to the Christian nationalists of the Mountain State because ... reasons? Regardless, they are doing the children of West Virginia a considerable disservice, never mind opening themselves up to yet more litigation regarding the teaching of pseudo-science.
"If this revised bill passes, their science teacher still couldnβt discuss Intelligent Design in class."
It won't stop them from trying. Dressing up creationism as (un)intelligent design just makes it science-y sounding, and they think that is real science, because of the decades of science denialism that is clouding their understanding.
They so desperately want evolution to be wrong in order to maintain their status as God's special snowflakes that they will do anything to be allowed to lie to children about what science has actually discovered.
All right class we will be discussing how the massive Jotun Ymir became the worldand the nine realms. What? It's how the universe came into being. What do you mean "not like that"?
Keep chipping away at the education system, you will only get stupider and stupider representatives in your government who will propose bills like this that donβt actually change the laws or do what they think they do. Keep wasting everyoneβs time and taxes on ineffective, ludicrous, religious territory markings. Itβs not like it causes issues and drags down the state, or anything.
This is the government we get when we let the FOP run roughshod over the fucking constitution as we have been doing. This is not what we deserve, this is what weβve been modeled into accepting.
Intelligent design may explain how humanity came to be, but it doesn't explain how the designer was so stupid that he decided to run the ureter from the kidney to the penis in men through the prostate gland, or why the prostate gland swells as men get older, making it harder and harder to urinate-- the urination, not the penis -- and it can kill you if it gets bad enough.
Prostate glands are proof positive that intelligent design is a myth.
The same fucking jesus that gave me a clogged arteries cuz I seldom eat meat. The same jeezy that made me diabetic and gave me numb feet wracked with intense pain. Bladder and prostate cancer. The same evil jesus that made me gay and then pushes a book calling for my murder. FUCK YOU VERY MUCH jeezybitch!!!
Even in the scriptures the intelligent designer kept messing up. Humans bad - evict from garden; everything bad - make flood; language/architecture bad - make Babel. Moving on: humans bad - make Jesus - still bad - kill Jesus. C'mon.
Next in WV schools https://images.app.goo.gl/zZYjh9cqFGq8TUxe6
My favorite old joke about ID. "If humans were created by an intelligent designer, why did they run a sewer through the playground?"
Here's what Zakir Abdul Karim Naik, an Indian Islam public orator who focuses on comparative religion, had to say:
"A human eye is perfectly designed therefore cannot come from evolution."
Need I point out that Dr. Naik wears glasses?
"Two Hurricane High School juniors, Hayden Hodge and Hunter Bernard, promoted the bill to the panel."
Today's bill is brought to you by the letter "H".
If there is an Intelligent Designer (spoiler alert: nope) they get a F in creating religion because religion is an underlying cause in many of the worldβs ills, see also war, inquisition, crusades, Holocaust, P01135809
It's hilarious because everyone knows they just want to have their religion taught. They know it, we know it, everyone knows it. But they carry on pretending like it's not, and they all know that each of their others are all lying. It's like a mass lying hysteria, except that they are fully self-aware of it.
I don't know the exact percentages, but a lot of Christians, Muslims, and Jews happily reconcile evolution and their faith, so really ID is only there for fundamentalists who refuse to see the evidence in front of them and continue believing that God is a liar who made a six thousand year-old universe appear to be a 14.5 billion year-old one because he likes to yank our chains.
I understand that fundamentalism is easier because you don't have to think. You just think the way you're told to think and say, "nun-uh" to anything that contradicts what you've been told. But grow up. Deal with facts. Wrestle with your holy books. Test everything, hold on to what is true.
If that leads you from fundie to Lutheran or Methodist or atheist or agnostic humanist, so be it.
A good god doesn't expect you to reject the evidence.