I'll freely admit that I normally find the "Opus" comic rather uninteresting, but sometimes the analysis of political issues is boosted by unexpected sources. The comic that ran Sunday, August 28 pretty much sums up the ridiculousness of the term "intelligent design." Of course, there are some more traditional writers who point out why even those who believe in intelligent design are forging and fighting a false argument.
In a Baltimore paper, this writer points out that the debate over intelligent design is not about curricular differences - it's a debate between science and faith. Wikipedia has a fairly good summary of the intelligent design concept, and it does a good job of illustrating how intelligent design fails several tests for being an actual scientific hypothesis (such as being able to be proven true or false).
Alas for the days when one could actually argue the facts. Instead of being blatantly obvious that we should teach children science in school and faith at home, the intelligent design crowd turn this into another us v. them. We're restricting their freedom of faith or we hate Christianity.
You know, I'm a believing Christian and I don't have any problem reconciling the idea of God with evolution (after all, if God created Earth, she probably got evolution going, too). I wish these folks would open their minds a little. If nothing else, maybe they can laugh a little at Opus.
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