Wednesday, December 21, 2005

 

No Plastic Reindeer Defense for Creationism


The establishment clause of the Constitution is in the news again, this time about the school board who decided students needed to consider intelligent design alongside Darwin's effort. In my December 9 entry, we saw that the addition of secular items such as a Frosty the snow man to a manger scene absolved the city of the "pushing" charge. So it seemed to be a good idea to add some secular stuff to the creationism idea, to knock off the pushing, so to speak. So with intelligent design we say "God, heavens no! It could just as well have been designed by a visiting alien or a time traveler." See? No one is pushing any particular designer. That seems plastic enough to me.

Didn't work. Humph, what do you do to get some consistency and predictability out of the courts today? Worse, the decision promises to have repercussions well beyond the limited jurisdiction of that court. Senator Rick Santorum, previously thought to be a go-to guy for the alien and time traveler crowd, said he was withdrawing his affiliation with the Thomas More Law Center, which defended the school board. He said he was troubled by testimony indicating that religion had motivated some board members to adopt the policy.

There are also indications that the ID folks may be in retreat on the alien business, since it is apparent that if God had intended aliens to be on earth, He would have put them here.

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