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December 28, 2004
Design
There's an interesting back and forth among some heavy-hitters about intelligent design. Hugh Hewitt kicks it off here with a look at how it's presented in schools. Rand Simberg and Prof. Volokh respond.
Posted by Joshua Claybourn at December 28, 2004 12:47 AM
I find it hard to believe Mr. Hewitt's post has garnered any attention at all. It's not about ID at all. It's a whine.
Some people chose to illegally inject their religious agenda into the public school system by challenging incredibly well established scientific fact with a flimsy bit of hand waving superstition and Hewitt is boo-hooing that the mean, nasty reporters MADE FUN OF THEM. IT MUST BE BECAUSE THEY'RE CHRISTIAN AND THE LIBERAL CONSPIRACY WANTS TO RIDICULE AND EXCLUDE CHRISTIANS FROM THE CULTURE!!! WAAAAHHHH!!!!
He offers no support for his claim, and no reason why Christian attacks against EB should be in some special category deserving of more respect than say Native American groups demanding stickers on textbooks claiming that Copernican theory is not proven and that the earth may be supported by an infinite stack of turtles, Hindus demanding a sticker protesting linear time and the idea of a "creation" at all, or Raelians admonishing in the public school curriculum that life on Earth "may" have been seeded by aliens.
I see nothing to distinguish these beyond Mr. Hewitt's personal sense of entitlement and persecution on behalf of Christians. I dare say that if any of the above succeeded, or indeed any non-Christian dogma of any sort were put into the school curriculum by activist boards, its proponents would meet with far greater ridicule and contempt than any similarly Christian distortion has.
Posted by: B at December 28, 2004 05:19 PM | permalink