Erhan Önal's Blog

Saturday, April 16, 2005

Right wing nut visits Northfield

Yes, you are right - Ann Coulter is giving a talk at St. Olaf. this Sunday. If I can find a friend that will come with me, I will go see her; and I will (try to) ask her the following question:
Do you think hypotheses such as Creationism should be taught in biology classes alongside evolution?
If the answer is no, then maybe she is not as bad as I think she is. If she says yes, then ignorance will have won - here is why:
Darwinism has inspired nothing but racist and right-wing ideologies in the 19th and 20th centuries. I really don't see why the right in the U.S. is so much against Darwin's theory of evolution. The theory of evolution is prone to distortion and can be easily converted to a right-wing "survival of the fittest" (Although Darwin never said that) paradigm - it has been done before, and it can be done again! As a result, we can finally say goodbye to social welfare since those people really "don't deserve to be rewarded for their weaknesses" and say hi to flat tax. The Republican party is mainly controlled by religious zealots - I hope one day they will just say "God created evolution" and stop mingering with Biology and start realizing the "gems" hidden beneath this beautiful theory! I think Republicans should stop being cry babies and use evolution for their own agenda.
Another reason is that if we start teaching hypotheses at biology classes, there is no end to what "cannot be taught." As an example, let's imagine a biology teacher who says he created humans. This is non-sensical, just like saying that "God created everything." You cannot prove it, you cannot disprove it, because it is beyond the realm of science.

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