Ignorance

It's been so long since I've been able to post that I have to start with an article dating all the way back to May 21. Richard Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and is one of the foremost advocates of Evolutionary biology. He's also the most entertaining personality and writer in the Evolution debate, sublimely gifted in polemic aphorism. The article is titled Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant. From the end:

The creationists’ fondness for “gaps” in the fossil record is a metaphor for their love of gaps in knowledge generally. Gaps, by default, are filled by God. You don’t know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don’t understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don’t go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God. Dear scientist, don’t work on your mysteries. Bring us your mysteries for we can use them. Don’t squander precious ignorance by researching it away. Ignorance is God’s gift to Kansas.

What intellectual cockroaches these rabid creationists are. Have I mentioned that I hate them?

The fight is about to begin in Utah as well.

"What an insult to teach children that they have evolved from a lower life to what they are now, and then they go home and learn that they are someone special, a child of God," [Conservative activist Gayle] Ruzicka said. "This is not right."

Incredible how Christian-centric these people are, while arguing that this is legitimate material to teach in government schools. Can a Jewish reader tell me if the creationist movement is as voraciously blind and forceful in their religious community? I'd make a shot in the dark guess that it's not.

In other news, CNN, in its typically understated manner of reporting environmental stories, today displays the headline "Atlas reveals global devastation." I certainly don't disagree with the story at all, but it's humorous how zealous they are in framing their agenda. Incidentally, the story's another example of why humans really shouldn't breed.

Golly, I'm in a delightful mood today. At least it would appear so from reading the screeds on here as of late. But we started rehearsing just yesterday, and the cast is absolutely fantastic. On the other hand, Comcast charges $155/mo for cable internet service up here! So it's another summer on dialup... C'est la vie.