Griper Blade: Continuing the War on Science

Huckabee claims his creationism won't affect education. But that's not the only worry we should have

There are some things we take as an article of faith. I'm not speaking of my own atheist self; but of the majority of people in the world. I suppose there's no real harm in believing something there's no evidence for, but I'd argue that there's a real problem with believing in something despite all evidence to the contrary. The former is faith, while the latter is delusion. Which brings us the popular delusion of creationism and its alter-ego, intelligent design.

I've had people ask why "both theories" shouldn't be taught in schools. I always have the same answer -- there aren't two theories. Creationism is just a hypothesis -- there's absolutely no evidence in its favor. In fact, the evidence we have points away from creationism, not toward it.

At this point, I'm usually pointed to a bunch of crap that "proves" evolution isn't true. The problem here is that even if they were able to completely disprove evolution, they really haven't done anything to prove creationism -- logic doesn't work that way. If one person argues that 2+2 equals 3 and another thinks it's 5, proving that 2+2 is not equal to 3 doesn't automatically prove it's 5. And that's all that the evidence "for" creationism consists of -- arguments against evolution. The entire foundation of "creation science" is based on a logical fallacy.

Creationism requires that you "unlearn" logic. It means you cast critical thinking aside and embrace that delusion I spoke of earlier. It's not hard to see how this banishment of reason from someone's mind would handicap their thinking in other areas. Not surprisingly, GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee doesn't get that...

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