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Has to go to Eric: "You can?t spell 'controversial' without R-O-V-E". I'll admit that I haven't been following the whole Rove/Plame fiasco very closely, mostly because there are so many intricacies and twists that I can barely keep the main...

11 to 7 in a magnificient post-season game. One professor I know of sports a Yankees jacket during most Octobers. Its always more fun to talk to him when the Yankees lose. It is true that some NSU faculty have...

From WorldNetDaily: For the moment, George Bush can stop worrying about where Harriet Miers stands on abortion. The larger question is soon about to be an even messier one: How exactly does Ms. Miers fit into the never-ending George Bush...

From Kossack diarist "Raybin": It's become more and more apparent to me over the past five years that all the activism and non-violent protesting in the world will do precisely squat. When you're dealing with evil people who have no...

They are estimating that over 18,000 people were killed in the earthquake that hit Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. 17,000 of them appear to be in the Kashmir region. 18,000. For the love of God. Think about that. Jesus....

Why Intelligent Design Is Going to Win

It doesn't matter if you like it or not. It doesn't matter if you think it's true or not. Intelligent Design theory is destined to supplant Darwinism as the primary scientific explanation for the origin of human life. ID will be taught in public schools as a matter of course. It will happen in our lifetime. It's happening right now, actually.

First, the Chief will stipulate, that based on observation of the doings of the denizens of Washington, D.C. the prospect for intelligent design certainly seems doubtful. However...in other terms there is merit in the proposition.

This posting presents a proposition, and supporting discussion that the concept of intelligent design (ID) will ultimately gain ascendency, for a number of clearly stated reasons:

1) ID will win because it's a religion-friendly, conservative-friendly, red-state kind of theory, and no one will lose money betting on the success of red-state theories in the next fifty to one hundred years.

2) ID will win because the pro-Darwin crowd is acting like a bunch of losers.

3) ID will win because it can be reconciled with any advance that takes place in biology, whereas Darwinism cannot yield even an inch of ground to ID.

4) ID will win because it can piggyback on the growth of information theory, which will attract the best minds in the world over the next fifty years.

5) ID will win because ID assumes that man will find design in life -- and, as the mind of man is hard-wired to detect design, man will likely find what he seeks.

Check out the whole article for the supporting discussion. The Chief particularly likes what's said in reference to the first of the above points:

I've said it before and I'll say it again: families that reproduce people tend to reproduce ideas, as well. The most vocal non-scientist proponents of ID are those delightfully fertile Catholics, Evangelicals, and similarly right-leaning middle-class college-educated folk -- the kind whose children will inherit the country. Eventually, the social right will have the sheer manpower to teach ID wherever they please.

Back in undergrad days, the Chief encountered more-or-less female students of the feminazi persuasion who proclaimed their intention to NEVER have children. As a student of biology, I stated the biological significance of that option: "Oh, you have decided then that you are biologically unfit! Biological fitness is defined as success in passing genes on to the succeeding generation." The reaction to this...as the saying goes...priceless!

If you've visited The Corner at all today, you probably need a break because it's been one downer after another regarding the Miers nomination. Click and scroll to expose yourself to the more broad, full-scale whining of the Cornerites....

Astros Win, Finally!

South Dakota Politics' Ken B. takes note of Houston's 18 inning win over Atlanta in their playoff game - noting that it's always nice for Ted Turner's guys to go down. He also notes:

At the top of the marquee, St. Louis and the ChiSox rolled over their opposition. It certainly seems only fair that they meet in the series.

THAT's more like it! The Cards won 100 games in regular season for the second straight year, and then flew circles around the Padres in the first playoff round. The Chief, being an expatriated St. Louisan at this point has little warm feeling towards the Astros.

Go Cardinals!

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