Can I be funny?

Well...... that last post ran on a bit eh? I wonder could I be funny? Could I make my points in a clever and quick way? Hmmm......how might that look?

I got an email the other day from one Connie Morris. You probably know the type: sincere, involved, middle-aged, religious right leader. Yeah, she even wrote a book about how Christ helped her recover from incest and rape while growing up in Appalachia. Now I always took those stories about hillbilly incest as elitist left-wing thinking, but apparently its true and Connie recovered from this through Christ.

Anyway, our communication was regarding the debate on Evolutionary Theory for Kansass schools. Can you guess which side Connie is on? Yeah, she's against Evolutionary Theory. She says the Board isn't trying to implement religious training in the public schools. But then, I think I saw her with one of those funny cigarettes just before she said that. You know, the kind you don't want the cops to see. So, I'm not sure she was on her best form at that time.

If you think I'm being mean, consider this: as a Christian woman, would she lie to us if she had the benefit of all of her faculties? So, somethings gotta be coming between her and her senses. Maybe it's the lesbian love affairs I've been hearing about. Of course, some people say that Rush Limbaugh isn't really a druggy. The reason he purchased all those pills was to share them with other right wingnuts that can't handle the pain of being cooped up in this country with normal people.

Mrs. Morris goes on to say she wants to "... simply encourage criticisms of Evolution-as the evidence abounds." Well do tell. She is a sharp number when she sobers up. I've never been taught about any of this evidence. Heck, coming from a member of a State School Board, this is something to check out. Who knows what wacko conspiracy has been suppressing the facts.

One wacko conspiracy agrees with Intelligent Design (ostensibly Mrs. Morris' basis for criticizing Evolutionary Theory), but finds it incomplete. They find that Intelligent Design has gaps as big as those in Evolution. For example, how do we reconcile what we know by faith and what we know by experience? Good question. They answer this question in their religion, through revelations regarding the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Pirates. On yeah, its true. Check them out over at: www.verganza.org. They have a long list of name academics and scientists that support their theories - its worth checking out.

But, I suspect that Mrs Morris doesn't agree with much of what these nutballs are saying. No, she's staying with respectable proponents of Intelligent Design. So,I did some research. it seems that many of us on both sides of the issue don't really understand the academic or scientific arguments behind it. In fact, I'd venture to say that most Americans don't have the credentials in mathematics, nor the development of their logical skills to understand the theory of Intelligent Design. And when the proponents try to explain it, they water things down so far that they are pandering to the fundamentalists who are predisposed to disagree with the evil Theory of Evolution.

So, an interesting question is: Does Mrs. Morris belong to those who don't understand the Theory of Intelligent Design, or the one's that do? In the first case she's just a quack and an idiot. I don't say this to be rude, but pushing science, if you don't understand, it is idiotic. Anyone who disagrees better have a good argument on their side!

Let's suppose that she really does understand Intelligent Design. If she does, she must be well educated and well informed. So well informed that she would know that the few (two) capable proponents of Intelligent Design: a) Don't agree with each other on key points; b) Don't agree with themselves over time; c) Continue to find their arguments countermanded by better stronger arguments against intelligent Design, and as a consequence are constantly having to retrench. And knowing this, a reasonable person would have to concede that for the time being, the arguments for Evolution are much stronger than the arguments against it, and that Intelligent Design hasn't developed sufficiently to be called a scientific theory.

So, we know Connie as a Hillbilly from a bad family who has embraced a fundamentalist Christian faith, who is attacking Evolution from her role on the Kansass State School Board, either as a liar or a idiot and a quack.

How do such people get into positions of authority?

Do you think the above is any better? It certainly more biting. Maybe not funny. Hopefully a little shorter. Well, maybe practice will make me better.