Faced with
the complete repudiation of Intelligent Design in science classrooms, portending worse days for the anti-intellectual climate necessary for George Bush's plutofascist takeover, the Dallas Morning News
editorialized an endorsement of anti-intellectualism today.
Selective quotes below, with the obligatory "head explosion" warning, of course:
Texas taxpayers must continue to subsidize the Republican Party er religion:
Public schools can and should address important questions about the origin and meaning of life through the social sciences, literature and comparative religions. It would be wrong to preface those lessons with a warning that the ideas presented are unsupported by science.
The DMN suggests we assumed philosophers and theologians are more interested in pursuing the "unknown":
Scientists, no less than philosophers or theologians, are fired not by what is known but by what is unknown. It is merely that each discipline proceeds by its own rules of inquiry and that preserving those rules is vital to the integrity of their quest.
and, of course, the kicker- straight from the ID playbook, the stupifying notion there are scientific hypotheses that will never be testable and scientists who will give up:
Perhaps, ultimately, this is a battle that does not need fighting. Belief in a creator is valid, with or without scientific underpinnings. Some mysteries are probably irreducible, and, for that, both science and faith can be glad.
Comment:
The Federal Judge in Dover rocked the world of dim bulbs everywhere, certainly in Texas, but the Dallas Morning News was quick to remind them they have a safe home on the paper's editorial pages.