Apparently, our children aren’t scientifically ignorant enough for (un)Intellgent Design godbaggers. Not satisfied with peddling ignorance to adults, Joel from Uncommon Descent has decided to start a new blog entitled: Stop Lying To Us.
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It appears, that despite the pronouncements of desperate Democrats and scared Republicans, that there is a plan for handing over control of the Iraq over to the Iraqi Army. You can read all about it
here.

I would guess that this agreement has been in the works for a number of weeks, but hasn’t been giving much press. Also, two days ago I saw a story on CNN about how bad the violence in Iraq has been since May, but failed to mention that since a strategic change in August, there has been a significant drop in deaths in Iraq.

I’m not accusing the media of left leaning bias per se, but it seems that a sort of “group think” has set in with the media and the “experts” in proclaiming Iraq as continually getting worse with no sign of improvement. This new agreement with Iraq and the success of the strategy change in August indicates that failure, despite the Democrats’ biggest wish, is not inevitable.

It is somewhat ironic that a website dedicated to “Intelligent Design” is increasingly unable to have intelligent discussions. The site I’m talking about is “Uncommon Descent“, the blog of uber-ID proponents William Dembski and Denyse O’Leary. In recent posts, “Uncommon Descent” has brought Hitler into the discussion in an attempt to equivocate the reprehensible acts of Hitler with the theory of evolution.

It is true that Hitler believed in evolution, and was a big proponent of “social Darwinism”. It is also true that Hitler was a vegetarian and born in the month of April. Does this mean that anyone who has given up meat is as evil as Hitler? Do people born in April have a higher propensity to send Jews to the gas chamber?

To think that vegetarians and people born in April are anything like Hitler is absurd. It is just as absurd to link evolution to Hitler. In a recent post, O’Leary opines “My own view is that the reason for the controversy around films like the Coral Ridge special is precisely the fact that Darwinists have never really dealt with the implications of social Darwinism, so it keeps coming back to them like a bad penny.”

Actually, “social Darwinism” has been dead for over sixty years now, and in historical hindsight, it appears that “social Darwinism” was only co-opted by imperialist and racist movements to attempt to sound scientifically legitimate. Even today, the remaining “social Darwinists” are nothing more than a fringe movement.

O’Leary, of course, is completely wrong when she claims “Darwinists” haven’t dealt with the implications of “social Darwinism.” One just has to look at Secular Humanism to see just how much it has been dealt with . By bringing up Hitler, though, O’Leary hopes to paint “Darwinists” as cold, unfeeling, immoral hedonists with hearts like Adolf. It’s cheap at best, and repugnant at worst.

Why is O’Leary reduced to cheap Hitler attacks? I’m not sure, but I think it has something to do with her own realization of how weak and sad the foundations of “Intelligent Design” are. That might be the most intelligent thing she’s ever thought.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51760

I don’t normally laugh at someone’s death, but in this case, I just have to. This follows the story from a few months ago, where a man died trying to prove God would save him from lions. The lions seemed to be more powerful than God, as they ripped his neck open in about two seconds.

Message to godbaggers:

God isn’t saving you from lions, drowning, cancer, or losing football games. Best you get off your ass, and do something instead.