Darwin's Watch
Oct. 26th, 2006 05:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lurkerwithoutI'm only on the 2nd chapter (the first science one) and I've already got:
"Ah, yes, but science discourages questions too, say the cults and religions. You don't take our views seriously, you don't allow that sort of question. You try to stop us putting our ideas into school science lessons as alternatives to your world view.
To some extant, thats true - especially that bit about science lessons. But they are science lessons, so they should be teaching science. Whereas the claims of the cults and the creationists, and the closet theists who espouse intelligent design, are not science. Creationism is simply a theistic belief system and offers no credible scientific evidence whatsover for its beliefs."
Plus bonus, this footnote:
* According to Isaac Asimov, the most pratical and dramatic victory for science over religion occured in the seventeenth century, when churches began to put up lightning conductors.
Pure fucking brilliance...
"Ah, yes, but science discourages questions too, say the cults and religions. You don't take our views seriously, you don't allow that sort of question. You try to stop us putting our ideas into school science lessons as alternatives to your world view.
To some extant, thats true - especially that bit about science lessons. But they are science lessons, so they should be teaching science. Whereas the claims of the cults and the creationists, and the closet theists who espouse intelligent design, are not science. Creationism is simply a theistic belief system and offers no credible scientific evidence whatsover for its beliefs."
Plus bonus, this footnote:
* According to Isaac Asimov, the most pratical and dramatic victory for science over religion occured in the seventeenth century, when churches began to put up lightning conductors.
Pure fucking brilliance...
