Evolution VS Stupidity

On November 24th, 2009, “on the origin of species” celebrates it’s 150th birthday. After accumulating literally thousands of tons of evidence on it’s behalf, among fossils, written pages of observation and genetic research, it’s unbelievable that there’s actually still academics trying to convince us that the world is only a few thousand years old, and that life was created as it is by some mythic creature. Those people are able to declare that evolution is “just a theory”, as if a theory was a hunch, a guess; even worse is the fact that they considerer the alternative as being more probable because some tribal individuals wrote it thousand years ago. After all, what do we know?! Tribes are in the very apex of human intellectual achievements. They knew what they were talking about (smirk)!

The fact is, there’s been a lot of discussions and legal movements that intend to make “Intelligent Design” a part of the schools curriculum as if it was a valid scientific alternative to Darwin’s evolution. I.D., for those unaware, is only a more pseudo-scientific version of creationism; it’s almost the same thing, except creationism has been consistently repudiated by the scientific community, opening legal precedents that make it impossible to it to actually win the dispute for becoming a part of formal scientific education. Make it more vague, speak in complicated “scientificist” and pretend it’s believable, and there you have Intelligent Design, a “theory” that was clearly not designed intelligently.

Anyway, the reason I’m writing this article is to present my readers with the booklet recently published by the USA’s National Academy of Science, which presents a good and rather soft set of arguments about why evolution is such a steady ground is modern science, why it’s not just a guess, and, more importantly, why it would be absurd to implement I.D. in the public schools. You can download the booklet for free from their site, in PDF format.

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I confess I find it too soft on the criticism; it actually tries to conciliate the faithful with the evolutionist theory. It serves the purpose of making religious fanatics able to consider the theory as something other than plain blasphemy, and I guess they’re right. You do get more flies with sugar, right? I, on the other hand, have become so pissed by the intrusive influence of religion on the scientific field that I have no longer the patience to try and conciliate science with absurdity.

Why I consider religious movements intrusive? In first place, because they tend to present themselves as cornerstones of morality, thus affecting the way the entire society is expected to behave. And I’m not even getting started on the centuries of development we’ve already lost because of these people – and, here, let me not generalize the common religious individual and the fanatic morons. Fanatic moron is, in my opinion, that who will not use condoms because the pope said so; it is that who will vote against the stem-cell research on the congress, will mutilate their children for religious traditions (Circumcision  IS a mutilation!).

As for their role in education, the fact that they desire to see their delirium being taught at public schools hits me as a minor absurdity, given that they already have their own private schools. Preaching religion in a school (any school) seems to me as disrespectful and intrusive as if I were to teach scientific methodology in a church! The school is supposed to be a haven of science, a “sanctuary” if you will. A place where your child goes to inherit the knowledge mankind has acquired and that is not attached to the madness of ancient prophets. Religion often conflicts with this knowledge, and, what the hell, I’d defend to death their right to do so! But, in my opinion, they do not have the right to bring such conflicts to our “holy grounds”. Dammit! No one ever seen me going to the church to argue with the priest! But when there’s a priest inside the school, what right does he have to argue – or worse, to preach to the children who are unable to argue! If their families are faithful, they’re sure to be sent to church on Sunday. They have that right, and, for as much as I believe that’s not a healthy behavior, I defend that right. But when private schools mix religion and science and spoon-feed children with their bullshit, then I feel rightfully pissed!

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