A War of Another Sort

A few of the blogs I frequent have been discussing on and off the drive of certain religious types of trying to get Intelligent Design taught in science classes as an alternative to Evolution. Intelligent Design is the approach that everything that exists in nature today was crafted by a designer instead of the process of random evolution, and is a cleverly disguised approach of offering Creationism without the heavy religious overtones.

I have no problem with people believing in Creation by God or "Intelligent Design" if that's what they want to call it. I have no problem whatsoever with churches teaching and preaching Creation to their congregations, or trying to get their theory publicized in media. I will even ignore it if they choose to teach it in private schools. What I have a problem with is a group of people with certain religious beliefs taking their religious teachings, wrapping it in pseudo-science, and presenting it as actual science lessons to kids in public schools who have to study it if it is part of the curriculum.

Look: its not science when you take a predetermined outcome, in this case the supposition that the world and everything in it was created by a supreme being, and then add evidence as you see fit to support your theory and taking any inconsistencies in the other guy's theory as proof of your own. It could be called debating, it could be called arguing, but its not science. Science is taking all the available evidence, coming up with a hypothesis that supports the evidence, and testing the ever-living hell out of it. If your hypothesis doesn't hold, you adjust your hypothesis and test everything again. That is how Evolution was discovered and continually updated over the centuries. Science is self-correcting, religion by its definition is not.

So here's my message to proponents of "Intelligent Design": stay the f*ck out public schools. I don't go into your church and ask to start a class examining Evolution, show some respect and back out of the public's face with your beliefs and fake-science.