No time right now for a detailed post, but our president threw large handfuls of monkey-feces at the future of science education in the US yesterday: Bush endorses teaching “Intelligent Design”.
It’s bad enough that enormous chunks of our economy are owned by Saudi and Chinese financiers (that’s what massive deficit spending really means) but we aren’t going to dig out of that hole with a population that has been taught lazy thinking. And “Gee that’s really complex; God must have done it” is lazy thinking. It’s the same logic as “I don’t know what causes thunder so it must be Thor’s hammer.”
Unfortunately the Knight-Ridder story linked above gives a free pass to the Discovery Institute’s ID talking-points. I suppose they’re trying to be “fair” but to me it’s evidence that news agencies should stop hiring people with “journalism” degrees and get people with degrees in real subjects to report the news.
Thanks a lot, Mr. President.
Articles and rants on Bush endorsement of “Intelligent Design”: