Rectum Santorum
The sheer blatancy of Rick Santorum's recent disassociation with the Thomas More Law Center, a “Christian-rights” organization, speaks volumes about the hubris of the American Right Wing. They've always been in a state of denial about the world, but until recently, they've fooled enough people that they could get away with it: there were things that no one would call them on, a space where no foes would enter: the Conservative Sanctum Sanctorum.
On the surface, Rick Santorum's move is inexplicably stupid. He gives every appearance of being a fair weather friend, of changing his mind because he backed the losing whores horse.
What he actually is doing is attempting to set up further support for so-called “Intelligent Design” by distancing himself and ID from the “religious argument”: Santorum told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he was troubled by testimony indicating religion motivated some board members to adopt the policy.
Religion and ID overlapping?!? Why, The Honorable Mr. Santorum seems to be surprised by the notion that they're not separate things! What a fellow.
Apparently Santorum will hook up with just anyone without checking out their background. He had an association with the Thomas More Law Center, whose website contains their mission statement, quite easily discoverable. An excerpt:
The Thomas More Law Center affirms the right of Christians to publicly practice their religion and freely express their religious beliefs. Our Founding Fathers fought for a nation built on a foundation of religion and morality. Our lawyers are committed to restoring and preserving that foundation.
These are the folks who were defending the Dover schoolboard's decision to require teaching of ID in science classrooms. So you can see how Santorum would be surprised to find out that people choose ID over evolution for religious reasons.
Personally, I think ID should be mentioned in Science classrooms in its due proportion of scientific merit. If I were a science teacher, I would mention the existence of groups of people who believe origins to be based on Intelligent Design and then offer a summary of their position: God Did It.
And then I'd spend the rest of the school year providing examples and theories and research all supporting evolution.
ID isn't Science. It isn't even anti-Science. It's ridiculous posturing and lying by Christians who should be following their own Commandments.
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Okay so I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed. I thought ID was creation. It is isn't it? Just a new name or whatever?
My daughter went to a private school (Christian) they were taught Creation along with Evolution. She loved the debates.
I love to read you, sometimes I get you then other times I wish you would dumb it down for me.
I have been baking for the last 3 days. Southern Lane Cake, pumpkin/cranberry bread. Pumpkin pies, fudge, cookies, Red Velvet Cake, Pecan Pies. Wish you lived closer I would invite you to Christmas Eve Dinner (Pork Loin Roast, with a sausage stuffing, and mushroom gravy, holiday potatoes, cream corn, cabbage, spinach stuffed tomatoes, butternut squash casserole) Then I would send you home to await Santa with a big ole basket of goodies.
Merry Christmas to you and the ones you love. May you feel the magic again.
Hugs,
Auntie Bren
Posted by: Brenda | December 23, 2005 01:42 AM
Thank you, Auntie Brenda. That's very sweet of you.
I'm sure that the ID vs Evolution argument makes for exciting debate, it's just not science.
And yeah, the ID folks try to distance themselves from creationism, saying that some "non-identified intelligent agent" created at least *parts* of life. But when you ask who the agent might be, they all say "god".
Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | December 23, 2005 02:05 AM
Sausages !!!! <clap> <clap> <clap>
Posted by: Noelbear | December 23, 2005 09:47 AM
A real monkey wrench is about to hit both sides in the ID vs Evolution debate and religion may be in for difficult times? For there is a wholly new interpretation of the teachings of Christ, contained within the first ever religious claim and proof that meets all the criteria of the most rigorous, testable scientific method, published and circulating on the web. It is titled The Final Freedoms.
It is described as a single Law and moral principle, offering its own proof, one in which the reality of God confirms and responds to an act of perfect faith, by a direct intervention into the natural world, providing a correction to human nature including a change in natural law [biology], consciousness and human ethical perception [proof of the soul], providing new, primary insight and understanding of the human condition!
So while proponents of ID may have got the God part right, but if this development demonstrates itself to be what it claims, all religious teaching, tradition and understanding of ID are wholly in error, and the proponents of evolution who have rightly used that conception to beat down the credibility of religious tradition, but who have also used it to deny the potential for God, are in for a very rude shock.
However improbable, the impossible may have become possible. No joke, no hoax and not spam.
Free pdf downloads of the manuscript are available at www.energon.uklinux.net and http://thefinalfreedoms.bulldoghome.co
Posted by: Robert Landbeck | January 5, 2006 10:23 AM