Friday, November 11, 2005
 I posted the "Associated Press News story" below where they used a clip of my recent rant on the topic of Intelligent Design (you can read my whole blog somewhere on this page if you want to take it all in).
What can I say that hasn't already been said? There's a scene in that film, "Meet the Fockers," where Robert DeNiro teaches his grandson to raise his two fingers to his eyes to say: "I'm watching you." -- well, I'm doing that gesture right now while typing with one hand.
I'm watching you Kansas! If you need help crossing the street you can call me (ask the operator to help you dial). I know how to deal with special people.
I did get a few letters from people "pro" and "con" on the Darwin issue and the best one came from a biology teacher. She basically said that "religious extremists" are forcing their beliefs on the rest of us. My reply to that is "fight back." -- it took one lady, by the name of Rosa Parks, to start a movement against racial segregation. Don't sit for it!
I'm not against religion at all, and I have said my prayers at the right times -- and the right place. Science class just isn't the right place for "religion." Period.
I read today that Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson told citizens in Pennsylvania that they had rejected God by voting their school board out of office for supporting "intelligent design" and warned them on Thursday not to be surprised if disaster struck. Does Pat have a better connection to God than I do (is he on speed dial)?
I'm sure he's just saying that to "shock" people, right? He actually would make a great replacement for radio shock jock: Howard Stern; I mean, he can't be serious. Can he?
write me your thoughts and I'll post them in the near future.
BY HENRY CRUZ
Selected reaction to Kansas' new science standards
Associated Press
Reactions to Kansas' new science standards, which treat evolution as a flawed and controversial theory:
"A year from now, they'll be singing the new Kansas state anthem (a little tune from the 'Wizard of Oz'): If I only had a brain." - Henry Cruz, a writer on The Bosh, an Internet gossip and entertainment news site.
"It's about time. ... Now the thinking population is getting its turn at putting in place a faith that was believed by centuries until 'The Origin of the Species' replaced it." - J. Grant Swank Jr., a writer on MichNews.com, a conservative Internet site, under the headline, "Darwin Challenged. God Praised."
"It stretches incredulity that this board of education could not have been aware of the dangerous waters in which they have dived head first." - Joel Kaplan, president of B'nai B'rith International, which said the new standards were an assault on the separation of church and state.
"Let's face it, the majority of the scientific community is pro-Darwin, is not in favor of looking at Darwinian theory critically, and so if the news media reports what the scientific community says, that's the viewpoint." - Jonathan Wells, senior fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which supports research questioning evolution.
"If we're going to bring high-tech jobs to Kansas, and to the U.S. in general, we need a work force that is knowledgeable about science. This decision does nothing to help prepare our children to compete in the world economy and that concerns me greatly." - Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, in a statement.
"The state school board in Kansas has approved science standards that include a balanced teaching of evolution that permits students to look at alternative viewpoints, including intelligent design." - The Traditional Values Coalition, on its Web site.
"Science is what it is, and religion is what it is, and no rewriting by anybody will change what is an inappropriate effort to inject religion into the classroom. Talk about unintelligent design." - The Fort Wayne, Ind., News-Sentinel, in a short editorial on its Web site.
"No longer will Darwin be taught dogmatically in Kansas public schools. Scientific evidence, not philosophical presuppositions, will now guide the presentation of the data for and against each aspect of the Darwinian theory." - the Intelligent Design Network, which argues that some features of the natural world are best explained by an intelligent cause.
"My wife and I were planning on traveling from our home in North Carolina to Yellowstone for next year's vacation; however, we will now be diverting our trip so as to avoid having to travel through Kansas at all. Your state has a real problem." - e-mail to the Kansas Department of Commerce. The agency declined to release the writer's name, citing privacy concerns.
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