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Discuss “"Intelligent design" is the monkey on Darwin's back”

"Intelligent design" is the most ridiculous case of right-wing semantic jazz-hands since homophobia and misogyny were designated "family values."

Last week, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District got under way. The lawsuit, in which eleven parents in Dover, Pa., are opposing their school board?s mandate that all ninth-grade biology students be taught intelligent design, is monumental in implication, will probably draw media attention from around the world, and will in all likelihood find its way to the freshly reorganized Supreme Court.

In case you're unfamiliar: Intelligent design is the "theory" that organisms, particularly humans, are just

too damn majestic and complex to have evolved through nature, that clearly we must have been created...

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Comment 1. Lars Garefelt
Apr 14, 2007 at 10:11 AM

My belief is that the term 'Intelligent Design' was coined by fairly intelligent monkeys or the like. Am I wrong?

If not, please spread the word of the monkey conspiracy against humanity :)

Lari G.

PS: Comments are not necessary. I won't change
opinion.

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