Here is an editorial to momentarily warm the heart cockles of those
of us who live in the ever-dwindling reality-based community AND who
continue to hold that willful lying in support of a political agenda
is not MERELY against the law when done under oath, but is
fundamentally wrong ALWAYS.
It seems to me that one of the frightening traits of religious
fundamentalists of all stripes is an unshakeable willingness to let
THEIR ends justify ALL means.
William Buckingham and Alan Bonsell wanted to bring God into high
school biology class, and in the process, they lied.
They lied about their motives.
They lied about their actions.
They lied about what they did or didn't say at public meetings.
They even lied when they claimed newspaper reporters lied in stories
about Dover school board meetings.
In his ruling on the Dover case, U.S. Judge John E. Jones III said it
was "ironic" that individuals who "proudly touted their religious
convictions in public" would "lie" under oath.
Yes, ironic - at the very least. But also sinful according to the 9th
Commandment.
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I PARTICULARLY appreciate the fact that the writer is BOTH properly
relentless in excoriating the ID proponents for their criminal
conduct AND clear-headed enough to say:
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The ruling reflects that evolution by natural selection is backed by
mountains of evidence while ID has produced not one peer-reviewed
paper.
That doesn't mean God doesn't exist.
It doesn't mean the world wasn't intelligently designed.
It just means that in science you can't invoke the supernatural when
you don't fully understand a natural process.
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