Link:  Evolution Slate Outpolls Rivals

This was certainly an interesting turn of events; especially when you to take into account this is a conservative area of Pennsylvania.  Were the voters really this upset about the idea of Intelligent Design being taught in their school?  I don’t know.  But it certainly says what the people of Dover thought of the eight losers.

Let me say this:  while I can certainly get behind the idea of Intelligent Design, I do not think it should replace or be taught side-by-side with Evolutionary Theory.  Personally, I believe their was a God-like being, for me the God of the Jews, who created the Universe; but I also believe in many of Darwin’s Theories.  People like to think the Earth is just a few thousand years old, but if you believe God created the Heavens and the Earth how long do you think it took?  Do you believe one day for God is a 24 hour period?  A few millions years watching the Earth form from the Galactic Soup would be like a day or two for an infinite being like God.

I believe there was a Garden of Eden, but I also believe there were dinosaurs.  Could they not have co-existed?  Adam and Even were, to my thinking, immortal until God kicked them out of the Garden, so what was going on outside all that time?  Could millions of years have passed?  An ice age?  Dinosaurs living and dying?  Cavemen evolving into humans?  The Bible makes it sound as if the Earth was already populated when Adam and Eve were kicked out.  Did God create those people that very second?

I don’t believe Intelligent Design is science.  It is a belief with a basis in faith.  For that reason alone it does not belong in a science class.  Could it be taught as a class by itself?  Or maybe as an alternative for parents who don’t want their children to be taught Evolutionary Theory.  Why not?  Just don’t pass it off as science.  Keep science in science classes — we need it there if we’re going to compete with the rest of the world.

Via Huffington Post

So who had a bad day yesterday?  It might be too soon to say Republicans had a bad day yesterday, but it’s not too soon to say the Governator might be on his way out.  See here, here and here.  While I’ll not say California could do better with Warren Beatty as Governor, they certainly can’t do worse than Arnold — unless they re-elect Gray Davis.