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Feb. 10th, 2009 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinpraSo I just finished watching Nova's program Intelligent Design on Trial (at least I think that was the name) about the court case betw teaching/offering info on Intelligent Design vs. exclusive teaching of Evolution in science classes in Dover, Pennsylvania. I don't know what kind of coverage the story got outside the US, but it was national news.
What I found particularly annoying and offensive about the program--and perhaps the only thing I actually found offensive--was the pervasive, although I think never said outright, and underlying idea that if you believe the parts of the Bible that aren't popular (Creationism in this case) then you're an idiot who left your brain outside the church door. The program made a point of showing who on the Evo side were also Christians, but those same Christians found it impossible to believe that their Creationist counterparts could actually believe in Cr, let alone ID. One woman even said something to the effect of "You just care about being saved from Hell and seeing your loved ones in the hereafter, and you don't care about logic or reason anymore."
We now poopoo the leadership that stomped on early scientists like Galileo and called him irrational. Aren't we doing the same thing now that they did then? Presuming that those who don't believe as the majority do are intelligently deficient? And saying that "But we know better" doesn't mean a thing when they too thought they knew better. Just because I don't agree with you, because I believe in something you think is irrational, doesn't mean that I am irrational or what I believe in is irrational.
What I found particularly annoying and offensive about the program--and perhaps the only thing I actually found offensive--was the pervasive, although I think never said outright, and underlying idea that if you believe the parts of the Bible that aren't popular (Creationism in this case) then you're an idiot who left your brain outside the church door. The program made a point of showing who on the Evo side were also Christians, but those same Christians found it impossible to believe that their Creationist counterparts could actually believe in Cr, let alone ID. One woman even said something to the effect of "You just care about being saved from Hell and seeing your loved ones in the hereafter, and you don't care about logic or reason anymore."
We now poopoo the leadership that stomped on early scientists like Galileo and called him irrational. Aren't we doing the same thing now that they did then? Presuming that those who don't believe as the majority do are intelligently deficient? And saying that "But we know better" doesn't mean a thing when they too thought they knew better. Just because I don't agree with you, because I believe in something you think is irrational, doesn't mean that I am irrational or what I believe in is irrational.