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There is no shortage of stupid people in America; and consequently there is an overwhelming surplus of stupid bullshit being disseminated by mentally unfit morons on a daily basis. I would like to do society a favor and eviscerate these numbskulls where they stand, but chlorine is a banned substance in the gene pool, so instead, I'm going to eviscerate the beliefs that the dumb people perpetuate. You might say I'm chlorinating the meme pool if that didn't sound pretentious and awkward.
As per my tradition of starting every series's inaugural post by choosing a target of great political stupidity, I would first like to address the whole Creationism/Intelligent Design/Teach the Controversy movement in one fell swoop, in the exact opposite order.
Teach the controversy! Strengths and weaknesses of evolution! And other such bullshit.
Teach the controversy? They already do. It's called the Scopes Trial! The controversy was settled in the 1920s. Get with the times, you morons.
The only place suitable for discussing the strengths and alleged weaknesses of Darwin's theory of natural selection is a science lab. This isn't an issue that needs input from poorly-informed middle school students who were forced to listen to some brainwashed science fiction fan babble on about complexity for forty minutes every day for two months.
Unsure about an evolutionary pathway? Instead of prattling on about how unlikely the present state is, do some goddamn research. You'll find that evolution as modern biologists understand it is iron-clad.
Intelligent Design: A "theory" for the unintelligent.
Here's the cliffnotes version of intelligent design: Life is intricate and complex. Manmade technology is often intricate and complex. Therefore, all life was created by something greater than life.
The problem (or one of them, at least) with intelligent design is that it requires the existence of something greater than life. When I say "something greater than life," I mean anything between an ambiguous pantheistic god and a physics-breaking divine intervening personal god. Furthermore, there is sufficient reason to believe that these "complex" things happen as a result of both random variation and natural selection. There is no logical reason to believe in intelligent design-- a theory which requires the existence of a deity in order to be true.
You don't have to be an atheist or PEARList to see that intelligent design is a load of bunk. Professor Kenneth R. Miller, a practicing Catholic, points out that intelligent design implies not only that there is a god, but that the god is a dishonest trickster[video]. All you need is a functioning brain to see that intelligent design is a load of horse shit that decomposes to dust before Occam's Razor.
Creationism
The insanity of creationism speaks for itself. Three words: Flat Earth Society.
If you think closet creationists are crazy, wait until the next installment of The Dumb Bullshit People Believe. Next on the chopping block: Alternative medicine and psychic healing.
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