Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Highly Evolved?
Check out William Saletan's "What Matters in Kansas" in Slate. Here's a sample:
Not quite right, but funny -- some good obsevations, but flawed, very flawed conclusions -- stay tuned for more from RSR on this article soon.
"In the Scopes trial, creationists defended a ban on the teaching of evolution. That was the early, authoritarian stage of creationism—the equivalent of Australopithecus, the earliest hominid. Gradually, evolution gained the upper hand. In 1987, the Supreme Court ruled that states couldn't even require equal treatment of evolution and creationism. By 1999, creationists were asking the Kansas board not to rule out their beliefs entirely. This was creationism's more advanced Homo erectus phase: pluralism. Six years later, evolutionists in Kansas are under attack again. They think the old creationism is back. They're mistaken. Homo erectus—the defense, on pluralist grounds, of the literal account of Genesis—is beginning to die out."
Not quite right, but funny -- some good obsevations, but flawed, very flawed conclusions -- stay tuned for more from RSR on this article soon.
