Thursday, May 19, 2005

Eye on ID

I read a good editorial on Intelligent Design in Los Angeles City Beat this evening, it seems Andrew Gumbal and I share some of the same concerns, we are not in Kansas anymore,This ID nonsense needs to be stopped.

A quote from Gumbal's editorial: "Another manifestation of the misdirection of the ID movement is the ludicrous notion that high schools are the appropriate venue for intricate debate about the finer points of evolutionary science. Any public school science teacher will tell you it’s already a minor miracle if a 16-year-old can accurately summarize The Origin of Species, or pinpoint the Galapagos Islands on an atlas. Raising questions about the cellular structure of the flagellum is unlikely to exercise most students until grad school. "

I could not have said it better myself.