Evolution is Winning Even In Dixie 9-21-2015

http://www.laconiadailysun.com/opinion/letters/89036-james-veverka-9-21-385

To the Daily Sun,

In the heart of Dixie, Alabama has just approved a new science education overhaul for 2016. They will be teaching both evolution and climate change as established science. They have decided they want their kids equipped for the real world of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Being ignorant can have profound consequences in this fast paced and demanding world. Some of the chief proponents of this change are quite religious.

Intelligent Design Theory (ID) is not science. It can't be tested. It can't be verified. It has no gathered lines of evidence. Science attempts to develop hypotheses that best explain the observations in nature. Intelligent design assumes as certain fact that there is a God and then tries to build a case within that box. True scientific explanations always admit uncertainties. ID masks itself as science with ideas like "irreducible complexity" which always crumble when examined.

Science is neutral on a creator but science isn't neutral about what is established science to this date. While science can disprove a great deal of what religions claim in their texts and doctrines, it is pretty quiet on the notion of a creator. How exactly do you define a creator? Is it an "eternal" ground state? A being? An energy or force? Is it just too incomprehensible for us? Since science can only measure the natural world, how could it ever know anything about an alleged supernatural world? Its not in physical evidence and it certainly has never been measured except in Ghost Busters and old Vincent Price movies.

Evolution can be reconciled with faith if one is intellectually capable of revising their definition of a creator. After all, a "personal God" presented by the fundamental religious texts of Jews, Christians and Muslims really is a case where primitive humans created a creator and "king" in their own image with their own tendencies, willfulness and egotism. What cracks us unbelievers up the most is the notion that an all-powerful, all-knowing deity needs our recognition and worship. Its bizarre to us that an omnipotent creator is obsessed about humans taking notice of him. What kind of omnipotent creator needs our attention? It amazes me that people can believe this stuff. Worship and obey the king or lose your head. Prostrate yourself or else, slave.