Links With Your Coffee - Wednesday
On Being Fired Again via riley dog
Ode to DeLay from Mad Kane
Not Intelligent, and Surely Not Science LA Times (free reg required)
The term "intelligent design" is nothing more than a linguistic place-filler for something unexplained by science. It is saying, in essence, that if there is no natural explanation for X, then the explanation must be a supernatural one. Proponents of intelligent design cannot imagine, for example, how the bacterial flagellum (such as the little tail that propels sperm cells) could have evolved; ergo, they conclude, it was intelligently designed. But saying "intelligent design did it" does not explain anything. Scientists would want to know how and when ID did it, and what forces ID used.
Joe Scarborough gets his ass handed to him by Dr. Ronald Cranford one of the neurologists that examined Terri Schiavo (video)
A Living Will or Bobby's Law. Robert Freidman St Petersburg Times wrote a rant that does justice to the farce taking place in Pinellas Park.
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Comments
Thanks so much for mentioning my latest song parody, Norm. And I love that Scarborough link too.
Posted by: Mad Kane | March 30, 2005 10:57 AM
The conservatives who hawk the moniker "intelligent design" are actually anti-intelligence, anti-science and anti-knowledge. There's that conservative activist who recently said about evolution (and I'm paraphrasing)..."We are under attack from the educated and intelligent segments of society." I really don't understand why conservatives are proud to say they are against being educated. Are they asking to be called stupid?
Posted by: Agitprop | March 30, 2005 12:23 PM
As I read articles from all over the political spectrum, I don't much common ground and it worries me. I agree that we are edging towards the nation being run by a minority of religious nuts with the battle cry of "moral values" making faith a popular trend. I also see many on the Left, especially in my environment (academia) who are just as closed minded as the right and are unwilling to at least listen to well articulated arguments from the Right.
I am a staunch liberal, anyone who knows me knows that...I guess what I am saying is, the close minded zealots on both sides that cause this divide in this nation are enemies of the state.
Posted by: Ricky Bones | March 30, 2005 2:06 PM
2nd part of 1st sentence. *I don't see much common ground and it worries me.
Posted by: Ricky Bones | March 30, 2005 2:11 PM
Ricky, what common ground could you have with people who want to turn America into a fundamentalist religious state? No harm in being firmly against that, no matter what the outcome.
Posted by: kevin m. | March 31, 2005 1:21 PM