Creationism: Best Issue Ever!

On the list of 'issues that are fantastic for the right wing' Creationism in all it's many forms is the clear cut winner. Global Warming made a strong run at the title, and even now might be the more popular issue, but the fact is that if not dealt with, it may cause problems to people, problems that will become noticeable and force the deniers to start spinning "Well we're not causing this" kinds of horse-hockey. People may at some point be forced to take note.

Which is where Creationism, and the newly spawned "Intelligent Design" come in. This is the best stuff ever! You get to pander to people's biggoted natured, you get to lie to them in a way that is very pleasing to them, and then you get to lose, which leaves them bitter and angry at the evil forces of 'liberalism' that defeated them, and the best part is, they can never win! They will always be stuck at square 1, railing against an enemy that will always be the winner.

Losing is vital, losing builds anger, losing makes a person do more to try to win. And losing while being insulted and degraded just makes you want to try harder.

Here is the cycle of the typical excellent loss for the ID'ers.

Step 1: Get a bunch of people elected to a school board.

Step 2: Pass ID agenda, talk about the 'controversal theory of evolution' which brutally misuses two words in that sentence, it is 'controversal' because people who don't understand the science fight against it, making it a 'controversy' and 'theory' is not a theory in the sense of the word in common useage, it's what science calls everything. Nobody attacks the 'theory of gravity' for being a 'theory'

Step 3: The ACLU and the evil egghead liberal scientists come into the mix, things go to the courts, ID gets thrown out for being religion trying to sneak it's way into the classroom. The late night talk shows make fun of the state in question who's bringing us back to the scopes trial.

Step 4: The people of the town vote out the people who brought this all about, and are thankful to be 'back to normal'

Thusly defeated, shamed, disgraced and angry, the Creationists return back to their homes for the next round, they get more friends, work more phone lines, do what they can until they can in a few years, sneak more of their own onto another school board and continue the good fight against the Godless Liberals who seek to poison the minds of our children with their sick lies about man being related to apes. Some day they will have final victory, some day they will finally get ID into the classroom, until then they will work tirelessly for Republicans in the fight against the Godless, evil, Anti-America Democrats.

Ignorance is bliss

"The rest of the show was kind of predictable and I nearly wretched at having Al Gore’s propaganda piece shoved down my throat all night, not only by winning Best Documentary but also Best Song AND another segment just dedicated to letting Gore talk about global warming! Look, the best scientists that money can buy today can barely even tell us if it’s going to rain tomorrow, don’t give me this line of crap about how they can somehow magically predict climate changes for the next hundred years, because they can’t. "

--Scott Keith, some guy you shouldn't know.

Now I may not know a lot about the science of Global Warming, but I can say that this is truly an apples and oranges comparison.

Imagine you had a bunch of friends who went to the dog track every day, and they watched the dogs race, and they bet on the dogs. They won slightly more then they lost, but they were not exactly world beaters, but hey, they had fun with it.

Now let's say they, and countless others, noticed something odd, that over the course of the year, the dogs were going faster then they had the year before, and the year before that. That they started putting their data together and were baffled by it, but they kept at it, and well after years more of research, they had in fact come to the inescapable fact that the dogs were running faster. They called this "Greyhound Speeding" and brought their info to people.

To which somebody replied.

"Look, you idiots can't even tell me who's going to win in the 6th race, and now you expect me to believe that you know for a fact that a dog 100 years from now will run faster then a dog now? You CAN'T know that."

Closes the case doesn't it?