Friday, August 19, 2005

Intelligent Design?

There must be some Intelligent Design around here somewhere. Or that is what presidential wannabe Bill Frist says now( Frist Backs 'Intelligent Design' Teaching).

Bill Frist
First, he put himself outside the herd by advocating for embryonic stem cell research, hoping to look more intelligent than the President. Now he seems to be taking that back, and wants to look as intelligent as Mr. Bush.
In all of the foofarahw, it appears that the most basic tenet of scientific inquiry appears to have been banned from mention in this quasi-pseudo-debate. A hypothesis is a scientific theory if-and-only-if it is testable. Merely asserting a desire to be intelligently designed fails this test. Totally. Completely. C'mon Mr. Frist; describe for me the experiment you contemplate to test your "Intelligent Design" hypothesis. No? Don't have one? Then shut up about the "theory", and let rhetoric about ID (hah!) be confined to the philosophy department and the debate society. Keep it out of medical school for God's Sake!
And quit pandering to the boobocracy, despite that its the natural constituency of the Grand Old Nineteenth-Century-And-Holding Party.
Oh; And tell your president to think of an Intelligent Reason to keep killing people in Iraq, or get out of there.

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