I'm constantly amazed at how stupid religion makes some people: suicide bombers, people who oppose all stem cell research and people who inist Intelligent Design is a valid scientific theory that should be tought in school.
"The natural world is too complicated" my butt.
Fine, then I suppose that the earth is flat because the math's much easier if it is a plane rather thana sphere. QED.
See, that flies in the face of pretty much everything we know about the earth as a result of relatively modern technology (eg pictures from orbit), but I think it should still be tought in school.
Or, maybe I think Einstein was a hack and the speed of light is not a limit. Do I personally have any scientific evidence to disprove the idea of the speed of light being a limit? Nope, but I do enjoy science fiction, and it would be a lot nicer if it didn't take hundreads of years to reach other planets.
I saw an episode of the Ali G show where he interviewed a couple opponents of Evolution and some rational scientists defending it. One of the opponents claimed that 'evolution has never been scientifically verified' or something like that. Huh? What about the moths in Industrial-Revolution era England who changed color from white to soot so as to blend into the now soot-colored trees? Or Darwin's finches? I think a lot of it is that people, like Ali, don't want to think of themselves as cousins of chimpanzee's and the like. People want to feel special and the 'everyone's a winner' feel of evolution might not agree with some people.
The point is, both the NAS and NCSE point out that "Intelligent design" is in no way a valid scientific theory and is nothing more than creationism packaged into pseudoscience.
[EDIT(2:06):] Fixed HTML and some grammatical things.
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your html-y stuff didn't work *giggles*
~Christine
Thbbt.
Now it does.
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