Rowhouse Logic - Breathtaking Inanity

I’m originally from York, which is just down state route 74 from Dover, PA, probably now and forever known as the land of intelligent design.

I can’t tell you how happy I was to hear the US District Judge’s ruling that struck down the Dover School Board’s decision to require the teaching of Intelligent Design. I was particularly amused by some of his rather scathing remarks:

The breathtaking inanity of the Board’s decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has not been fully revealed through this trial. The students, parents, and teachers of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into this legal maelstrom, with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources.

I have no problem with religion, far from it, but I don’t understand why this needs to be brought into school. I grew up learning the theory of evolution in high school biology and I never really thought the concepts of evolution were inconsistent with the possibility that maybe someone/something created that first minuscule atom from which we all evolved. Whether you buy creation or evolution or a combination of the two, I think maybe the theories can co-exist in our brains and not cause any undue confusion.

And really, I don’t know how much time and space could be devoted to this subject. Once you say that something may have created that from which we evolved, well, what else is there to say? How can you possibly devote entire texts to the subject?

I guess I just don’t get it. Thank goodness the U.S. District Judge didn’t get it either.

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