Kansas is Stupid

So in light of the decisions made on Election Day, I felt compelled to respond. I'm not going to talk about gubernatorial races, oh no. I'm going to talk about the School Board in Kansas.

I mean - how stupid can you be? They passed a resolution by a vote of 6-4 to include intelligent design as part of their high school science curriculum. They are also including a prepared statement saying that parts of Darwin's theory of evolution are wrong, and that basically the theory is worthless.

Hold on, I think I need to take a breath before I continue.

First off, this is introduction of religion into schools. Some say intelligent design can be exclusive of religion. Wrong. Intelligent design is founded upon the principle that nature is too complex to have occurred by chance, and that some "higher being" is responsible for everything. I defy you to prove to me how that doesn't imply God.

Second, intelligent design has no solid factual basis. It is based on the gaps in current scientific data. So what if we haven't got the whole puzzle figured out yet? Basing your entire argument on what your opponent cannot prove is not a solid argument. Period. Science is about facts, not the lack of facts. Presenting intelligent design as science of any sort is wrong.

Thanks to dictionary.com, the definition of "faith" is "belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence." Definitely not science, and faith is the heart of religion, which I fully believe to be equated with intelligent design.

Science is not perfect. I will never claim that it is. But it is at least based on some facts, observed natural phenomena from the molecular to macroscopic levels.

Let me also state that I am not atheist. I am actually quite religious. I believe in God. I believe there are things that science cannot explain, and may never. That is the limit of human intelligence. My issue is with a flawed system that believes that indoctrination constitutes science, which it does not. These school board members are also dismissing a viable theory wholesale because they don't agree with it. I fear that students from Kansas can only regress into a scientific Dark Age, as they will be shielded from cutting edge ideas by their parents' closed-mindedness.

Let me remind everyone that for a thousand years or more, it was an absolute fact that the Earth was flat and located at the center of our galaxy because God made it that way. I guess sticking with what the Church says is right in all cases. Glad we got that one cleared up.

I'll stick with science. The real kind, mind you.