May the smartest God prevail
I understand the desire to provide an alternative explanation to the creation of the universe. After all, evolution is just a theory. However, I feel morally obligated to offer a word of caution to the Christians who are campaigning so fervently to get Intelligent Design taught in public schools.
In order to push this alternative explanation, you can’t reasonably say that the intelligent designer is the Christian God, but simply that there was an intelligent designer. I for one am totally alright with that. However, much like gay marriage is a gateway for all kinds of “unnatural” unions, so too is ID curriculum.
Allow me to explain. Once you open the door forcing science teachers to provide an alternative explanation to evolution, namely Intelligent Design, what is to prevent them from identifying what or who that intelligent designer might be?
I mean, what’s to stop teachers from telling kids that the intelligent designer is none other than Franz Baader, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the Technical Institute of Dresden? What if? Where does the madness end? Franz is actually kind of plausible. But what if you had a rogue teacher, bent on just fucking with people?
What if he or she suggested that the Intelligent Designer might be Happy Fun Ball? Fuck. We’ll have people marrying snakes and teachers telling kids the world was created by a vengeful toy. People, think before you act. Understand the repercussions of your actions.
If you say that you’ll then lobby to ensure only your God is taught in schools, well, won’t your face be red when people point out that you’ll effectively be forcing your religion onto kids. You big jerks.
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