SARAH PALIN THINKS THE WORLD IS 5,000 YEARS OLD
Come on. What about all of those fossils – not to mention science in general, you know? Yet Palin wants creationism taught in public schools. In a 2006 Palin told the Anchorage Daily News, “It’s OK to let kids know that there are theories out there. They gain information just by being in a discussion.” But teaching creationism alongside evolution is like trying to ride a Big Wheel in the Tour de France.
Creationism does not adhere to any method of analysis; it’s not even a set of facts supporting a particular principle, because some of creationism’s main tenets are invisible or can’t be otherwise demonstrated. Creationism can’t be tested, but evolution can be, and has been. And guess what? It turns out that the scientific disciplines which contribute to the study of evolution – well, we owe them a lot, for things like MRI machines, medicine, and the hope that we can one day defeat illnesses like Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, AIDS and more.
Palin has been a friend to proponents of Intelligent Design – a creationist belief system championed in American politics mostly by an agency called Discovery Institute. This organization wants to re-cast the role of science in human civilization to incorporate Christian and theistic notions of the supernatural. Intelligent Design also asserts that science is at the root of many of the world’s current problems.
If you don’t believe in science, vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin. Give up your medicines, your processed foods, your machine-perfect clothing and the automatically milled wood in the roof above your head. Give up your car, your shoes, NASCAR and the operation that saved grampa’s life – give all that stuff up, because science is at the root of it all. Science causes problems, but what doesn’t? In the mean time, science also provides answers, solutions, longevity and a better quality of life for human beings. Science makes this debate possible, and runs the gears of the flag factory, too.
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