Guest Post by Morbo
[tag]James Dobson[/tag]’s [tag]Focus on the Family[/tag] is very upset because evolution opponents lost their majority on the [tag]Kansas[/tag] [tag]Board of Education[/tag] this week. The FOF “news” service ran an interesting story about the election. It is full of lies. Let’s parse it, shall we?
Advocates of accurate science standards in public schools are looking for answers after a defeat in the Kansas primaries. The state board of education lost a conservative majority. That almost certainly means standards that currently allow open discussion about the pros and cons of evolution will be rolled back.
“Accurate science standards”? What planet do you people live on? Kansas’ standards were an embarrassment and roundly condemned by the scientific community. And if you’re looking for answers, try this one: People in Kansas, having tried ignorance, are ready to move on to something else.
A misleading propaganda campaign was apparently too hard to overcome.
Nope. If anyone ran a “misleading propaganda campaign,” it was your side, Jimbo. This time Kansans did not fall for it. I know that annoys you.
The Kansas science standards were supposed to be the gold standard, according to proponents of [tag]Intelligent Design[/tag] (ID), written without bias and with no religious entanglements. That made it all the more frustrating when the pro-ID majority was voted out of office. Robert Crowther of the Discovery Institute said they were up against a vicious smear campaign.
“Groups such as Kansas Citizens for Science were blatantly misinterpreting and misrepresenting what the science standards were,” he told Family News in Focus. Candidates were often referred to as “intellectually challenged” and “religiously motivated.” The loss, coupled with a highly publicized defeat in Pennsylvania in 2005, has Crowther worried about a domino effect.
“We could see the ACLU and other such liberal groups threatening lawsuits in other districts,” he said, “where teachers may be questioning Darwinism.”
Gold standard! How about the “rusty, filth-covered, hole-ridden aluminum standard”? Kansas Citizens for Science spoke the truth. Your candidates are on a religious crusade to deny children accurate information about evolution because you believe it conflicts with your cramped and narrow interpretation of the Bible. As for a domino effect, yes, that’s what those of us who support sound science education want. Your crackpot ideas will be relegated to the dustbin of history eventually. “Liberal groups” are just aiding in that natural, ahem, evolution.
But many people still think the Kansas model is still the way to go. Del Tackett, a senior vice president at Focus on the Family, said time is no friend of [tag]evolution[/tag]ists. “It’s going to be very difficult for them to hold on to that notion,” he said, “in the face of evidence that continues to support the opposite perspective.”
Wrongo. Your side has no credible evidence. Meanwhile, real scientists continue to study and learn more and more exciting things every day. (Check out this cool example)
We will not straddle our children with your mythology and lies. Your neo-creationist “intelligent design” has already been debunked, and this is why you will be crushed. No matter what some people believe, science marches on. This means that, unless you manage to implement the same type of raw government force that brought Lysenkoism to Stalin’s Soviet Union, your ideas will never be taken seriously.
In short, Jim, you guys are dinosaurs. Deal with it.