Wow, that’s actually more than I expected.

I was reading a few blogs and links today, and I came across this post of a friend of a friend. Instead of cluttering up his blog with comments that might spur arguments, I’ll post my comments here and maybe they will visit and comment here via trackback links.

Anyway, “intelligent design” or creationism, or whatever you want to call it this week, shouldn’t be taught in public schools. I don’t think it should even be brought up as an alternate theory to what happened. Giving it this much credit basically confuses people with everything we have been able to prove with science.

Intelligent design basically tells us the fossil record has been faked and that all those old species we’ve seen die off, well that never happened.

Intelligent design attempts to discredit the scientific proof we have that our DNA is closely related to that of other animals. Intelligent design dismisses this as hogwash.

I have even read a quote attributed to a former Pope quoted as saying “Evolution and the Bible do not cancel eachother out”.

This isn’t about who is right or wrong, or who beleives in God or who doesn’t. This is about changing how we teach our kids, who by the way already trail the world in Science in Math, a muddied watered down version of science. Even by saying “these events might have been set into motion by a higher being” shouldn’t be part of the course. Sure, we can’t prove that this didn’t happen, but science is about teaching what we can prove. Evolution has been studied and proved through numerous experiments and studies. Examination of the fossil record, watching the species on the Galapagos Islands, these are things that have been repeated and proven.

Now if a private religious school wants to teach Creationism, they have that right. I do not think a public school should be entering into a debate over religion. That’s all Intelligent Design/Creationism is, an attempt to backdoor religion into the public schools in violation of the seperation of church and state.

This shouldn’t be about Democrats or Republican ideology, this should be about teaching our kids Science the best we can so they can compete in the global arena. We don’t need to handicap them any further than we already have by teaching them non-science in science class.

Couple of new subdomains have been created to house various content at mancide.net. First we have blog.mancide.net which will be where these amazing writings are hosted from now on. The old url will still work, so rss feeds and everything will still function. I also finally got around to installing some gallery software to manage some of the pictures I’ve actually put online, you can find that page at pics.mancide.net. More content might be added there, or it might sit stale like everything else here. Maybe the frontpage will finally be redesigned as well.

I’ve moved the site to Dreamhost, click the banner above for mad crazy deals. You can also use the code 50offnething to save $50 off any hosting plan.

Well, time to change gears in the career again. I’m taking on a new position that I think is going to be a great opportunity for advancement, and cut my commute down to nothing. I’ll be taking on an IT Support position for Madisonville Community College. I hope this works into an IT Director/Manager type position in a few years.