Damnit! Why, oh why did I drop out of Abortionist Skool? Whyyyyyy?

- Bubba the Suthern Penguin

Rats. I like to think of myself as one in a million, and it turns out I’m just one in a hundred.

Personally, I suspect Bush is too dumb to understand the actual differences between evolution and ID and creationism–I have an uncle like him who thinks God created the world and maybe some germs and everything else happened after that, because he doesn’t see where the ideological lines are being drawn, which is kind of funny to me. It’s almost coming up on the right side of the question by doing your homework all wrong.

I suspect Bush is a lot like that, when they tell him that these people believe this, and those people believe that, he doesn’t understand why it’s worth fighting over. ‘Cause, you know, it’s all in the past, so what does it matter? (And, honestly, I wouldn’t be particularly amazed if he didn’t actually regard the whole “prehistory” thing as fiction to begin with, he seems that detached from reality.)

So why’s he supporting ID in schools? My guess is because Karl sat him down and explained that all those whackjobs who voted for him feel really strongly that he isn’t being reactionary enough, or publicly pious enough, and that Roberts just isn’t crazy enough to suit them, so he’d better, as the saying goes, come to Jesus.
Teaching ID in schools is probably the cheapest bone Bush can throw the nuts right now.

It’ll be interesting to see how long it keeps them occupied before they start demanding shit he’ll have a much harder time trying to accomplish now he’s spent his capital: Social Security reform, anti-gay amendments, overturning Roe, cloning Scalia…

The last major biologist in an area related to evolution, as far as I know, was Louis Agassiz. And that was a hell of a long time ago.

But if the Christian version of Gawd is a vision of a loving, kind-hearted father figure taken to the nth degree, who’s to say the “Intelligent Designer” couldn’t be a divine version of a mathematical genius; cold, distant, lost in an abstract world inside his own head? I believe Hume even suggested something along these lines – maybe our world was just one of his many practice worlds, discarded without even a second thought for his next project. Would that somehow make these fucktards feel better than the thought of there being no Gawd and no afterlife?

The unspoken assumption seems to be that if only they can create enough doubt about a strict Darwinist version of events, their primitive little mythology wins by default, as if those are the only two possibilities out there.

You’re right. This childish cock-blocking has to come to an end. I’ll acquiesce. Yosef- you have a clear shot. I wish you good luck – you’ll need it, what with Seb having the double-penis and all, it will be hard to get her attention.

Ex.: Marie-Jon, min? rakastan sinua!

Or is this too fun for me? I’ll stop.

Proportionally, universities alone should have tens of thousands of biologists if not 100k. Then there is NIH, bio-tech and pharmaceutical industry. 100k research biologists in USA seems to be a ballpark figure. One percent of the population suffers from severe mental conditions — that would make ca. 1k mentally unstable biologists in the country. Of the latter number, a small minority supports ID.

Talking about mental conditions, somewhere I read about a study proving that psychopaths and sociopaths are significantly over-represented among politicians — while they seem to be under-represented among biologists.

Did you go to the ‘website’ link by her picture in the masthead?