Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Creationists Killing Science to Further Racism
A recent Washington Post editoral describes the danger that creationism -- now repackaged as "intelligent design" -- is wreaking on the schools, and the young minds, of our nation. And people wonder why Europe and Japan are beating us in technology? Creationism is racist Southern Baptist fundamentalist religion repackaged as science, with the intent to destroy science. Why? Because the white Southern Baptist types leading this fight would rather die than admit that evolution is right, and that blacks and whites are kin under the skin. They've felt that way for over a century and a half. That's why the Scopes Monkey Trial occurred in Tennessee, not Vermont. These bigotries have expanded outside of their normal Southern habitats, thanks to post-World-War-II suburban white flight and the GOP/Media axis that the creationists know how to manipulate.
I don't believe it's inherently racist.
The rest is pretty much true, although it's not clear that destruction of all of science is the immediate goal. Letting preachers run science classes is, however, a formula for degrading the conduct of science.
BTW, I agree with the racist part.
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