Intelligent design needs to be taught in school
I'm serious. Just mentioning it as a foreword to a course on evolution is not enough. I think this teaching, if it makes into the curriculum, will serve an extremely important purpose.
I firmly believe that one of things a person must develop is an acute sense of bullshit. This is the sense that makes you roll your eyes on quaterly company meetings. This sense helps you side with NPR correspondent rather than with White House official she interviews. And lack of that sense essentially breeds politicians. Lacking it, they will bullshit you with clear conscience, after all, they believe what they say.
The way I developed that sense (it was most efficient way, I think) is through being subjected to an ideological teaching (although of a different kind). Being ideological, such teaching replaces logic with a twisted system of beliefs. Young minds will see through it, given enough of it. And it looks like US is in need of a generation that would be vaccinated against somebody else's dilusions imposed on them. Armed with healthy cinicism, that generation will cure many ills of this society, maybe. Or at least they will not look as stupid as generation that elected Bush the second time!
I firmly believe that one of things a person must develop is an acute sense of bullshit. This is the sense that makes you roll your eyes on quaterly company meetings. This sense helps you side with NPR correspondent rather than with White House official she interviews. And lack of that sense essentially breeds politicians. Lacking it, they will bullshit you with clear conscience, after all, they believe what they say.
The way I developed that sense (it was most efficient way, I think) is through being subjected to an ideological teaching (although of a different kind). Being ideological, such teaching replaces logic with a twisted system of beliefs. Young minds will see through it, given enough of it. And it looks like US is in need of a generation that would be vaccinated against somebody else's dilusions imposed on them. Armed with healthy cinicism, that generation will cure many ills of this society, maybe. Or at least they will not look as stupid as generation that elected Bush the second time!
posted by denka at 3:11 PM
2 Comments:
so are you saying there is no 'intelligent design' ?
That all of nature and all of the world and all that we see is the result of random movements of particles?
yes to your first question
no to your second question
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