Joe Gandelman has the latest Robertson/Chavez news.
Pat Boone Supports Intelligent Design
And I am not even remotely surprised:
During the program, Boone, a well-known Christian, took a strong stand against evolution, mocking the notion the U.S. would become some kind of repressive society if the theory of evolution were not taught in schools, and he supported the teaching of “intelligent design.”
“The idea that all of this could have happened mindlessly with no blueprint is sheer stupidity and very unscientific.”
He cited America’s founding documents, quoting the Declaration of Independence as he stressed, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator … .”
“That’s how opposed to God Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that, was. Yet he is credited with trying to keep all mention of God out of public life. I wish Jefferson could be back here today just for 30 minutes to set things straight.”
There you have it- the scientific evidence for intelligent design can be found in the wording of the Declaration of Independence! Now why didn’t some other better quality wingnut think of that!
Speaking of better quality wingnuts, you will enjoy this piece by Charles Colson:
Well, the usual critics jumped all over the president, but he’s absolutely right. Considering all competing theories was once the very definition of academic freedom. But today, the illiberal forces of secularism want to stifle any challenges to Darwin—even though Darwin is proving to be eminently challengeable.
Take biochemist Michael Behe’s argument. He says that the cell is irreducibly complex. All the parts have to work at once, so it could not have evolved. No one has been able to successfully challenge Behe’s argument.
In fact, the scientific case for intelligent design is so strong that, as BreakPoint readers have heard me say, even Antony Flew, once the world’s leading philosopher of atheism, has renounced his life-long beliefs and has become, as he puts it, a deist. He now believes an intelligent designer designed the universe, though he says he cannot know God yet.
Any more, it seems the supporters of Intelligent Design aren’t even pretending that ID is something other than creationism.
Ouch
Remind me never to cross Mark Kleiman, because he just UNLOADS on Juan Cole.
MadMan Money
I just errantly watched about 5 minutes of Mad Money with Jim Cramer, and anyone who follows his advice deserves their investments to go the way of Enron.
At least whatshisname was doing boatloads of cocaine and has that as an excuse.
More Absurdity
As doctors warn more patients that they should lose weight, the advice has backfired on one doctor with a woman filing a complaint with the state saying he was hurtful, not helpful.
Dr. Terry Bennett says he tells obese patients their weight is bad for their health and their love lives, but the lecture drove one patient to complain to the state.
“I told a fat woman she was obese,” Bennett says. “I tried to get her attention. I told her, ‘You need to get on a program, join a group of like-minded people and peel off the weight that is going to kill you.’ ”
He says he wrote a letter of apology to the woman when he found out she was offended.
Her complaint, filed about a year ago, was initially investigated by a panel of the New Hampshire Board of Medicine, which recommended that Bennett be sent a confidential letter of concern. The board rejected the suggestion in December and asked the attorney general’s office to investigate.
Even more shocking than that is the fact that President Bush (aka Chimpy McHitlerBurton BushCO) has not taken a moment from his vacation to SPEAK OUT ABOUT THIS!
Someone alert Armando and KOS!
Grow Up
I am little sick and tired of these stupid games played by the adolescent left:
Why Won’t BushCo Condemn Robertson’s Remarks?
Ironic but, in a way, not surprising. Bush and the Republicans are the Party of Joe McCarthy AND the Party of Dobson. No false smear of Democrats is left unsaid and no disagreement with the extremists of their extreme GOP will ever be spoken.
Wingnuts on parade.
The other day, the Daily Kos reacts to the idiot in the pick-up truck running over the political props/crosses at Crawford:
Bush can’t meet with Cindy. Not anymore. It would be seen as a surrender. But he could’ve spoken out against this desecration.
But he didn’t. Of course.
Bush is evil. Bush endorses running over ‘crosses’ at an anti-war rally. Why? Because he didn’t pull a Chuck Schumer and race for the camera to condemn the action!
Bush is evil. Bush favors assassination of people chosen by idiotic television ministers. Why? because he didn’t pull a Bill Clinton, bite his lip, and look into our souls through a local camera and tell us this is unacceptable.
Idiots. And they wonder why, even with Bush near rock bottom in the polls, people don’t treat certain wings of the Democratic party seriously.
Isn’t there enough stuff out there to be legitimately pissed off at this administration about that they can take a damned breather from the venom? The answer is- NOPE! This idiotic ‘smirking chimp’ haters crowd exist solely to keep me a Republican, it seems.
Speaking of the End of Vacation
WVU’s fall semester started, and Morgantown is a flurry of frenetic activity once again. There are just people everywhere, and the traffic is terrible (by local standards). The bus I take to work and back usually takes 20 minutes to get there (which is still faster than driving, because you don’t have to spend 30 minutes finding a place to park), but yesterday it took 50 minutes.
Because I will be busy, expect this blog to slow down during the days. I will still have all my morning posts and updates at night, but since I work during the days (and on Wednesday, from noon until nine), daytime updates will be minimal to nonexistent.
Still, this is my favorite part of the year. You can feel the electricty and energy in the air, Mountaineer and Steeler football are about to start, and every semester is a chance to start anew. One of the things I really enjoy is watching the students. As they get younger every year (I stay the same, of course), it is endlessly amusing to watch them try to assert their own identities and struggle to express themselves.
There is no better life than on the college campus.