In what you've surely noticed is a recurring theme in my criticism of the planet, people are unspeakably stupid.
This morning on TV I heard some debate on how Kansas was (or at least wanted to) remove all mention of Evolution from their textbooks.
In the past I have railed against the creationist standpoint as impossibly stupid at best and an outright rejection of logical thought at worst. Unfortunately, people still insist on clinging to a concept that is essentially the modern equivalent of the rejection of the heliocentric model of the solar system. In case you're a dumbass creationist, people once believed that the Earth was the center of the universe and that the sun and the planets and the stars all went around the Earth. Then a fellow named Copernicus came along and noticed that Venus went around the Sun (I'd explain the methodology to you, but it involves a lot of math). He hid his findings until after he died out of fear of retribution. All of the religious nuts tried to erradicate his findings and those of Galileo (including his studies into physics). When finally they couldn't deny the observations, they came up with a theory that said that the planets made circles in their path around the Earth. As evidence stacked up, the true believers came up with ever more complicated explanations that tried to keep their conclusions valid. After CENTURIES, the last of the anti-heliocentrists finally died of brain atrophy. The same malady afflicts the Creationists.
I actually DO have an insight here, so chill out. I'm getting there.
So what these Kansas people are saying is that their kids will continue to be scientificly literate without being indoctrinated with Evolution. OK, sure, maybe. If you just don't touch upon Evolution, a kid can get along just fine, since it's pretty much in the past and doesn't affect the regular person. The problem is, Evolution is just a tiny part the science that Creationists MUST reject in order to maintain their young-Earth delusion.
That would eliminate everything we know about Geology, for example. Geology is the key Earth science that demonstrates the advanced age of the Earth, so the Kansas kids can't be taught THAT. The same is true of astronomy. By definition, we shouldn't see any celestial body more than 6,000 light years away, so those that we can see are clearly the work of the devil. And since most of what we know about physics backs up the other two , that all has to go.
The kids are being denied a fundamental truth about science and life in general. Specifically, they are taught that you come to a conclusion, then make the evidence fit that conclusion instead of vice versa. People are so stupid it makes me just want to nuke 'em all.
Who would miss Kansas, anyway?
