Defend Science!

Most excellent!! Looks like people are finally starting to get enough of the religious right trying to take over our lives. As it should be, the scientists are leading the way. Read the statement and sign on!

http://www.defendscience.org/index.html

I've been fed up with this for a very long while and I'm sure my wife will be quite happy that I can vent a tiny bit without having to chew her ear off. :-)

[Oh great, I think I just got myself warmed up.]

I've got a friend at work who I think has recently converted into a religion. That's wonderful. Really! The clues are:

It's against this persons' philosophy that humans could have evolved. (We're too special. Isn't that a sin or something??)

I get little presents consisting of DVDs on how evolution is wrong and creationism is right. (Returned immediately - really pissed me off.)

Then I start getting various emails. The latest one talked about how the USA is a Christian nation and all our laws are derived from the Ten Commandments. (Uh-huh, why isn't adultery against the law?? Shouldn't they be stoned to death? Not to mention all the internal inconsistencies. I may yet do a post detailing this one.) Nothing like seeing the beginning of our own Taliban.

It's frustrating that people are so insecure with their religious beliefs that they need to attack anything that seems to disagree with them. It's also scary since anything they do is motivated by their belief that God told them to do it. Religion is powerful. But, like anything powerful, it can be misused.

And that's where we sit today.