Intelligent Design

For the most part I do not mind religion. Most people of all religious faiths are decent respectable people who do their best to make this a better world. There are times that we see people of certain faiths who would like to cause harm to others. One movement that does a lot of harm to its unsuspecting victims is Intelligent Design.

Intelligent Design is not science first and foremost. Science is based on things that can be tested. There is no way that we can test if something was influenced by a supreme being, therefore nothing that the ID movement can put forward is indeed science. Second, this movement does nothing to improve the knowledge that we have of our world. ID presents no new facts, experiments or even any positive evidence that what they are saying is true. They do not run tests to see if there is another alternative to evolution that can be responsible for the natural world. Instead, the last book that I looked at that talked about ID misrepresented the facts and then said that the science was wrong so god must have created the world. The author stated that evolutionists suggest that animals evolved using Lamarckian evolution. Lamarckian evolution states that if you cut off a rat's tail that its offspring will have shorter tails. This idea was quickly put to rest and no one in their right mind would say that evolution happens in this manner. ID is purposely lying and deceiving its followers, and for what? This is the important question. We should for no reason be teaching this to our kids ever. People wonder why our children are coming out of the public schools so messed up. The reason is that the teachers can not teach the children. Instead they have to deal with lawsuits funded by the Discovery Institute trying to say that there are problems with evolution.

Another thing that is common today is to say that evolution is ONLY a theory. Well, I guess that it is too bad that gravity is ONLY a theory. Why is there no opposition to gravity? Because the idea of gravity does not go against religious beliefs. However, evolution is just as much of a fact as gravity.

I fear for the future of this country since there is and has been a powerful religious force trying to teach our children bogus religion and pass it off as science.

However, I know that the truth will set you free. In this instance the truth is that evolution has happened, is happening and will continue to happen. There are always people who like to say something witty like "I know you evolved from monkeys," our something else just as clever. This also shows that this person has no concept of how man has evolved or even how evolution works.

Well, I am heading to bed. When I wake up tomorrow, I know that when I put my feet on the ground I will be able to stay on the ground and not all of a sudden start to float away. All because of the THEORY of gravity. And that makes me the Happy Atheist.