Boardmad

This
little snippet caught my eye…Once I’d wiped the screen down and lowered my voice from
the raving levels it had reached while reading, I settled down to try
and understand some of the implications of ‘ID’ and it’s propagation as
an alternative to Evolutionary theory.




[Adopts yorkshire accent, hooks thumbs into imaginary braces and begins calling a spade a spade etc etc]

I’m not a scientist…or even a keen amateur. I have watched countless
editions of David Attenborough up mountains, in abyssal depths, filming
majestic herds of wildebeest and best of all the Orca’s taking seals
basking on the beach. I’ve devoured Bill Bryson’s book ‘A
short history of nearly everything’ and loved how he brought vast swathes
of science to life. And have been utterly convinced that we descend from apes…and most crucially to this mild rant…I’m very,
very NOT religious.




I was married in a church so have already proven myself a hypocrite but
nonetheless I am stunned by the move by the Kansas Board of Education
approving new teachings which bring into question Darwinism.




"Ah…But !"  I hear you decry…"It IS just that…a theory" -
yes..I appreciate that it is just that and like all theories it’s
mettle must be tested in order to become dogma (sic ! So where’s the proof of the good
book that justifies it’s adherents !)…but how…just
how can anyone put their faith in a pseudo-religious, poorly disguised
attempt at reviving 19th century creationism ? In an era when we are
beginning to unravel the very fabric of our existence, and peer back
far enough to glimpse evidence of the creation of our cosmos…And then to make matters
worse proponents of ‘ID’ manage to get legislation passed to allow
the teaching of this mumbo-jumbo ?




I only hope that at some point in the (very near) future, sufficient
evidence is accrued to put this matter to rest and we can see what
additional efforts they raise to perpetuate religions’ stranglehold
over freedom of thought. May be we could just start treating one
another like simple human beings instead of relationships based on what
school you went to, "Whit fit d’ye kick wi’ son ?" and my personal
favourite the old, " whit team d’ye support ?" [Ooohhh...issues long
dormant rise up - too many years living in the west !]


Best close now or this is going to segue into a rant against football as well !! I mean really…!

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
rdanieg. The paonmnehal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to
rscheearch at Cbmarigde Uivnertisy, it dosn’et mttaer in waht
oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a plorbem. Tihs is
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe.

Azanimg huh?

Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt !