Intelligent Design Polls Abound

If none of you have ever seen The Flying Spaghetti Monster, you need to check this link out. Whatever your belief, it provides some fodder for additional discussion.

Most Americans are total idiots.

I thought that was a given.

Just kidding, but in all seriousness, it is very depressing what these poll results are revealing.

Well, I certainly take exception to his degradation of pharmacists (although he is mainly just quoting Bill Mahr on that one) and science teachers. I've written about the issue of pharmacists before and I feel it isn't as similar as Mr. Sorresso describes, at least not in the same vein. The arrogance of one persons opinion (especially when that opinion has little to no scientific basis) over that of the scientific community certainly is an issue. However, there are protocols to be followed for personal conscious in the medical field and those are well established. Further, this is not to say that people within the scientific community should not question established fundamentals (they do just that all the time). However, the arrogance of someone who is obviously less qualified to speak on an issue telling those who are qualified draws more parallels to the recent case of a NASA P.R. individual attempting to curtail the language used by on it's top researchers.

Anyway, the point about American's wishing to provide equal time for dissension is probably the main issue as this pertains to the public opinion and public education. Science isn't up for debate in the same way that political theories or English language usage is. It changes with time in a wholly different manner than other topics of education. Prevalent scientific theories are taught at any given time of course are subject to change but the underlying basis of the scientific method is always there. I.D. doesn't stand up to this and therefore has no place in the science classroom. That's really not something we should be voting on, as the public well-being relies to much on what nature does regardless of whether we think differently.