Saturday, December 03, 2005

 

Morality on Parade

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"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" - Joseph Welch, June 9, 1954 -
Over 50 years ago those 17 words did as much as anything to put an end to a shameful era in America when having thoughts different than the majority's was sufficient reason to strip a person of his or her livelihood and drive them from the public marketplace of ideas. Despite all the complaints about "Darwinists" censoring Intelligent Design, there has been little or no doubt that ID can be taught in public schools, just not as an excuse to take time away from real biology, and that any scientist who wants to make a case for ID can do so, they just have to do what every other scientist has to do: come up with the empiric evidence.
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The real censors are exercising their craft in Kansas now. Kansas University professor Paul Mirecki, the Chair of the Religious Studies Department, announced a course to be called "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationisms and other Religious Mythologies." This caused a predictable stir in conservative Christian circles, especially since they have never bought into the supposed divorce between ID and their religion.
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Mirecki, on the other hand, had made remarks on a Yahoo e-mail group about fundamentalist Christians, Jews and his own Catholic background that he foolishly thought were private. Mirecki apologized but that was not good enough. He withdrew the course but that was not enough. Now it is reported that "ranking lawmakers have promised hearings in which professor Paul Mirecki and KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway would be called on the carpet". I wonder if the first question will be: "Are you now or have you ever been an evolutionist?" Ironically, this will, of course, have an effect on KU, almost like an invisible hand reaching out to touch an institution already in some turmoil.
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Mirecki was rightfully censured for his remarks, though speaking of fundamentalists' "fat faces" or the Pope's "funny hat and dress" seems pretty tame when, over at the Discovery Institute's Evolution News & Views, as Pat Hayes reports in his blog Red State Rabble, John West is not content with quote mining Darwin for purposes of the old canard that he was a racist and eugenicist, but exercises channeling or mind reading or whatever to come up with:
It's true that Darwin wasn't a champion of forced sterilization, but that's because the technology for sterilization wasn't developed until well after Darwin died.
Where's Joe Welch when you need him?
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Link - Posted by John Pieret @ 7:43 AM
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