Adrian Melott, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and a founding board member of Kansas Citizens for Science, writes, “Intelligent Design Is Creationism in a Cheap Tuxedo.” In Physics Today.
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But what really knocked me out were those cheap sunglasses.
Oh, come one Andrea! Every girl’s crazy ‘bout a sharp dressed man!
Hah! I’ve got legs! I know how to use them!
As a uh, native Kansan, and scientist-in-training, it’s nice to see the “yeah, it’s a theory, but not all theories are created equal” line coming <i>out of Kansas</i> and not <i>at Kansas</i>. Mostly everyone I know thought the evolution-creation dustup from a few years back was just dumb. But, everyone especially hated hearing it from right/left coast editorial-page slapnuts. Not that they weren’t right, it’s just that they are a bunch of sniffling slapnuts.
<blockquote>Physical cosmology is largely absent from school science standards. Where present, as in Kansas, it is likely to come under ID [intelligent design] attack.</blockquote>Actually, the best, most rigorous education I got (for the grade, mind you) was as a little kid in a poor rural Kansas town. Learned Big Bang and all that.
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