Scientific American: The Trials of Life (a funny ID rant)

[gristy]

If you don't read Scientific American, you miss gems like this one by Steve Mirsky. Interestingly, the word "Sorry" in the subtitle is not in the web edition of this article, but it is in the print edition, so I added it. Sorry. :)


Because eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, we have to talk about intelligent design again. Sorry.
By Steve Mirsky

Let's review. First there was the oxymoronic, and just plain moronic, creation science, which says that biblical creation, not evolution, accounts for all life on earth. Creation science begat the more subtle intelligent design (ID), which holds that life is too complex to have evolved naturally--an intelligent designer (identity a secret, but it rhymes with Todd) must have done it, producing wonders of nature like the flagellum, that whippy tail some bacteria have, and both Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston.

On September 13, the New York Times ran an article that discussed how the documentary March of the Penguins was a big hit among some groups because of the lessons it imparted. A reviewer in World Magazine thought that the fact that any fragile penguin egg survived the Antarctic climate made a "strong case for intelligent design." Conservative commentator Michael Medved thought the movie "passionately affirms traditional norms like monogamy, sacrifice and child rearing."

more: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=15&articleID=00039664-6A56-137A-AA2083414B7FFE9F

And as we now know, none of the eight members of the Dover school board were re-elected. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/09/dover_school_board_booted/

[ptolle]

1. antidote

Aside from such articles as the one cited above I've found a consistent sovereign remedy for the ID quivers here:http://www.pharyngula.org/.
Highly recommended by me a science loving layman from the plains.

[wickerwoman]

2. That's hilarious.

Thanks for posting it.