Any states that choose to incorporate “intelligent design” into their public school curriculums may increasingly find their students at a disadvantage in being accepted into respectable secondary learning institutions that are loyal to the rigors of the scientific method. Perhaps these rejects will resort to rampant intermarriage in their exile, resulting in a hemophiliac progeny that withers into oblivion over the generations.

Moreover, will the precarious human need for belief in God itself be eradicated through natural selection in an increasingly intellectually discerning world?

Well, let’s take it from the other side. Perhaps the mother who eschews education (and birth control) will have more time to devote to nourishing her multitude of offspring and cultivating their survivalist, multiplying wiles. Didn’t God tell them to go forth and populate the earth? Is that an evolutionary directive?

As I see it, the question is not if “intelligent design” has any scientific merit, or even if it is relatively sound thinking, but this: does intelligence itself have evolutionary stamina? It has served us well for millions of years, yet all the technological “advances” of the past two centuries continue to threaten our survival as a species – with human induced climate change, the mass extinction of other species, nuclear threat, etc.

Most people you ask will agree that intelligence is a desirable trait, but is it a conceit to impose that belief on a fictional master designer? Yes. What then if intelligence is the mutation that is our Achilles heel? A failed design? A failed designer?

Maybe that’s why some say the intelligent designer is dead. (and no one cares)

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“Ask the men and women who stood on top of the Trade Center,” said Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham, R-Calif. “Ask them and they will tell you: pass this amendment.”

…because the attacks on the Trade Center were just some big flag burning stunt? Please – you don’t need to hijack four airplanes and fly them into buildings to burn a flag. There are an infinite number of simpler methods – a barrel of stolen Iraqi oil and a match should do it.

“If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., whose district includes the site of the former World Trade Center.

thank you.

and for the record, our own Barbara Lee voted: NO

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take your choice: to breathe it, or to drink it or to eat it? it’s treachery and it’s fucking surreal:

“There’s a trade-off,” says Rebeckah Freeman (email), a governmental affairs director for the American Farm Bureau Federation. “Do you want your fruit and vegetables to look pretty or do you have a social issue with these pest-management tools?”

wtf? The USA Today article lists a host of the reported ills including this:

“People were vomiting and coughing,” says the mother of seven. “People told me they didn’t know if they were going to live or die.”

chances are, you’re eating it:

Diener, the California farmer, thinks agriculture will slowly wean itself from reliance on toxic chemicals. But even though organic farming is the industry’s fastest growing sector, it’s only about 2% of production. Use of less-risky pesticides is up sharply but still accounts for less than 1% of the market. “We can’t do social good for anybody unless we make a profit,” he says.

circling…

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