Evolution defenders are missing…
I could easily remark that they are just as missing as the transitional forms in the fossil record as well, but I’ll refrain….oh wait!
In Today’s BreakPoint commentary…
Fair Play - The Intelligent Design Controversy Returns to Kansas
- we learn more about the Intelligent Design verses Evolution debate (or lack thereof).
This time the new state board of education is holding hearings to consider revisions that a group of scientists and educators has called for. These would allow Darwin’s theory of evolution to be taught in schools, but they would permit scientific challenges to Darwinism to be taught as well.
Sounds fair to me.
In this particular case, the NEW YORK TIMES reports that “Darwin’s defenders are refusing to testify at [the] hearings,” although they do have an attorney there to argue their case for them. But for the most part, they have stuck to trying the case in the media, judging their opponents’ claims unworthy without even really giving them a fair hearing.
Why can’t they defend what they believe to be true?
In a hearing of this sort, you would expect the proposal to be argued on its merits. But instead, most evolutionists simply claim that the whole controversy is beneath them, and they try to make a laughingstock of their opponents. They act as if those simple Midwesterners are just too uneducated or unintelligent to understand the most basic scientific concepts. The title of Thomas Frank’s recent book What’s the Matter with Kansas?, a real putdown which deals with evolution and several other hot-button issues, says it all.
Unfortunately this tactic is far too common these days (I guess all those years of a society watching Jerry Springer has taken its toll). I’m afraid we have a culture driven by emotion over the reality of truth, numb to the consequences of our actions.
Read the full BreakPoint commentary here.
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