Comments on: Wikipedia and Intelligent Design

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:52:15 +0000

What bugs me is that every single science class I took in middle school and high school already started with a reminder about the scientific method and how we’re to question everything. And this was in the Bible Belt, and without the need for stupid stickers on textbooks. We also learned about history, and how people believed that the Earth was flat because that was all they could see, and how people believed the Earth was center of the universe, because God wanted it that way. And nobody who accepts this ID crap seems to be able to recognize that it’s the same damn thing.

By: seppolopolis helavavaner

seppolopolis helavavaner — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:54:48 +0000

I believe it was in relation to one of the GWB-related elections, someone said, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.”

Still, the problem is that proponents of ID do their best to obfuscate the *facts* and claim that there essentially are no “facts” there is only conjecture. Pretty much the same thing the right wing political machine does. Whee.

By: Jeff H.

Jeff H. — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:34:30 +0000

Tough, isn’t it. We’re used to hearing “everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion,” but no one ever says “informed opinions are better than uniformed ones.” The eternal quandry.