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When Wackos Ruled, um, Kansas

Of course you know of the learned group running the Kansas Board of Education, yes? These are the yahoos who don’t think evolution is a good idea, but think that a mysterious creationism is. Well, they’re baaaaaaackkkkkkk…..

From the Kansas City Star story entitled Evolution theory called impossible:

In a recent newsletter to constituents in western Kansas, board member Connie Morris calls evolution a “fairy tale” that has “anti-God contempt and arrogance.”
. . .
“In short, Darwin’s theory of evolution is biologically, genetically, mathematically, chemically, metaphysically and etc. wildly and utterly impossible,” Morris wrote constituents..

The article of course also reports that creationism opponents such as Board member Sue Gamble falls back on the “separation of church and state” canard.

What’s truly sad is that both sides are profoundly mistaken. The evolutionists show a Luddite “contempt and arrogance” (to coin a phrase) for science with every word they utter.

Here’s the fact: Evolution explains the available evidence and fits well with progress in related scientific fields. Creationism doesn’t. Evolution (by extension into genetics) does a very good job of explaining how DNA can be changed over time–correlating well with other advances in bio-science.

Creationism on the other hand doesn’t explain why we can manipulate dog genes to create dachshunds and great danes, how we can create hybrid varieties of wheat, how we can manufacture Roundup-ready corn. Before it can be taken seriously, it needs to be judged in the context of the entire field of life science. Not just in the context of Genesis.

I don’t often side with the “liberals” but I’m with them on this one. Creationism is nonsense until sufficient evidence for it being correct is presented. Screeching that I somehow have “anti-God contempt and arrogance” or that “Darwin’s theory of evolution is biologically, genetically, mathematically, chemically, metaphysically and etc. wildly and utterly impossible” isn’t evidence. It’s intimidation, and presumption of the highest order.

This whole episode is a continuing stain on the reputation of Kansas. On the other hand, sitting here in suburban Kansas City on the Missouri side, it makes Missouri look comparatively that much better.

Don’t Bug Me, I’m Rippin!

The article count has decreased dramatically of late. Sorry about that, it might have something to do with trips to Paris and San Francisco, playing with my new camera (Canon Exilim EX-Z750) and finally getting around to ripping my CD collection to .mp3. Yes, my music collection is finally entering the 21st Century.

Never fear, I’ve still got a number of other Medary.com projects in the works.

OpinionJournal Encounters A Truth

OpinionJournal[*1] discusses a Washington Post story:

Evangelical Republicans Trust States on Social Issues

Reading the WaPo story, OpinionJournal blogger James Taranto notes:

evangelical Protestant Republicans (EPRs)have more trust in the democratic process than do Americans in general, and presumably far more than secular liberal Democrats (SLDs). It is the SLDs, then, who are guilty of the charge they make against the EPRs–namely, trying to impose their views on others.

Seems like the WaPo is discovering a political truth I realized some time ago and mentioned in the context of the esteemable Howard Dean: The Democrats have become the Party of Psychological Projection.

Hat tip to OpinionJournal

Thomas Sowell on the Military

What Will Future Generations Say?[*1]

It is impossible to fight a war without heroism. Yet can you name a single American military hero acclaimed by the media for an act of courage in combat? Such courage is systematically ignored by most of the media.

If American troops kill a hundred terrorists in battle and lose ten of their own men doing it, the only headline will be: “Ten More Americans Killed in Iraq Today.”

Oh, note to Howard Dean: Sowell is black. He has a job, too.

Glenn Reynolds vs. Howard Dean

Glenn Reynolds[*1] strikes again! Quotes like this keep him at the front rank in the Blogosphere:

Howard Dean is pretty much a one-man ScrappleFace full-employment guarantee.

Reynolds is of course talking about our beloved National Democratic Chairman and former Presidential Candidate (YEARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!) Howard Dean, in reference to Dean’s quote:

“Thanks to their pale skin, round eyes and khaki trousers, Republicans just blend in,” said Mr. Dean. “So they vote, get in the back of the line and vote again. And because they’ve never made an honest living in their lives, they could do that all day long.”

It is fascinating how vote fraud, which if the Democrats didn’t invent, they brought to the level of high art, has become a core belief in the Democrats’ litany of complaints against the Republicans. I’ve long ago come to the conculsion that the Democrats are the Party of Psychological Projection[*2] (i.e. most of what they loathe and fear about Republicans, they are themselves guilty of). Perhaps this is what the experts mean about half of all Americans suffering mental illness during their lifetimes?

Oh, a link to Scrappleface[*3] , an often hilarious parody site.