The Beginning of the End of Logic, Accountability, and Reason

The beginning of the end for logic, accountability, and reason
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Every Since the Creation Museum in Kentucky opened, young-earth creationism has been called "yabba dabba "science". You can see why so many people scoff at it. Kevin Padian, curator-University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley and president of the National Center for Science Education, (an Oakland group that supports teaching evolution): "Propaganda houses like Creation Museum in the greater Cincinnati area do nothing but distort the truth and promote a lie. They feel they are needed because "our increasingly anti-Christian country must return to a belief in the authority of the Bible and be presented with the life-changing gospel message."
I don't care about what individuals believe, but when people twist their religion into something that not only abuses itself but also presents itself as scientific fact, I find that dangerous. Creationism should never pose as fact. Intelligent design, by definition, cannot pose as fact. The "just a theory" religionists do not tell you that in the scientific world, theories can be facts. Theories can be scientifically proved. Even Starbucks knows this:
Pushing "Intelligent Design" into science classrooms degrades and defeats the purpose of science. And modern day science is based on cause-and-effect reasoning. Take away reason, and there is no science. Yes, there are some "scientists" who promote intelligent design, but if you look closely at their credentials, they are not in the fields that would disprove evolution. Of course, critics of evolution, like Ben Stein, would have you think that ID people are being persecuted. The problem lies in the fact that these people were trying to teach ID as a science instead of religious propaganda.
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards." - Mark Twain (Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar)
That unfortunate description should be placed in every school board meeting room in the country. Many people don't know who is on their local school board - and what agenda is being pushed. Boards aren't necessarily made up of former teachers representing the different disciplines. Your local butcher might feel he has a flair for poetry so he helps decide on some of the literature textbooks. All school boards should have high criteria for a seat on the board - but they don't. Sometimes their only qualifications are that they have children in school. BFD.

School boards should be made up of people capable of making scholarly and reasonable decisions concerning the matter of the subject taught in school. In some areas of the country, certain titles are not only frowned upon, but banned because of the school boards' religious beliefs. The state of Texas is particularly noted for banning books.

Did we say Texas?