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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!

Woe Be the Name of The Corner

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....
OU Football Bomber - Islamofascist Involvement?

Islamic Terrorism in Oklahoma Likely

A comprehensive sitrep from the Jawa Report on the Oklahoma football bomber incident that was first noted here. The more that comes out, the more it looks like the poor schmuck electrical engineering student got himelf roped into the Islamofascist trip.

Beware of geeks bearing gifts. (Sorry - I couldn't help it!)

H/T to Ryne McClaren for this one.

Miers not qualified

From Pat Buchanan: Handed a once-in-a-generation opportunity to return the Supreme Court to constitutionalism, George W. Bush passed over a dozen of the finest jurists of his day ? to name his personal lawyer. In a decision deeply disheartening to...
Bush breaks promise

From Michelle Malkin: A small minority of readers say we should wait and see, trust Bush, and hold out hope that Miers is a stealth candidate. This last line of defense is truly pathetic. We have a Republican House. A...
More On the Sooner Bomber

Michelle Malkin has been following the story a bit. See here for a bunch of news you probably heard earlier today, and here for a bit of an update....
EuroCrats, UN-people Demand Internet Control

The Chief has been looking at this with bemusement - sort of like a Rottweiler watching yapping toy poodles - hardly worth the trouble to respond to.

However....there HAS been a good response from the esteemed Emperor Darth Misha's Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler...and he seems to have covered all the bases, chewed up the poodles, and spit them out as being unworthy fare. Check it our - the Chief fully concurs on this one.

Evan Bayh

While Daschle will be speaking to the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in a few weeks, Evan Bayh will be speaking to the New Hampshire JJD dinner:If you happen to be a New Hampshire voter, lock your doors ... the politicians...

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