Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer focused on the Kansas State Board of Education’s evolution decision — calling it a “national embarrassment” — in his column for The Washington Post. He pointed out the folly of placing religion at odds with science, noting that both Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein were religious. He wrote:
“How ridiculous to make evolution the enemy of God. What could be more elegant, more simple, more brilliant, more economical, more creative, indeed more divine than a planet with millions of life forms, distinct and yet interactive, all ultimately derived from accumulated variations in a single double-stranded molecule, pliable and fecund enough to give us mollusks and mice, Newton and Einstein? Even if it did give us the Kansas State Board of Education, too.”
Posted by Melissa Cooley
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10 Comments
Children:
The word for today is “Oxymoron.” Can you use that in a sentence?
“The State Board of Education is an oxymoron.”
Good, Johnny!
Well said!
Hammertime,I don’t know about the oxy part, but they’re certainly morons! Putting morons in charge of education IS oxymoronic, and we were the ones that did that!
Jed,Pat yourself on the back.
JM,After those jokers are off the board and gone from government, I may; but until then, there’s way too much left to do!
“Conservative?”
Charles Krauthammer is a Likud supporter of Israel who never criticizes the country where his true loyalty lies. Dual citizenship allows him to vote in both the country he helps mooch money from, and the one which he helps lavishly spend it.
Whatever Kansas does or doesn’t do is really none of his business. He needs to help clean-up his own murderous degenerate country instead of throwing stones at Kansas.
The Americans in Kansas are perfectly capable of fixing whatever needs to be fixed without comment from an enemy of the United States.
Melissa: Referring to your editorial blog in which you mention that mollusks and Einstein might be profoundly and divinely related albeit “accumulated variations … in molecules.” I suggest you save and protect the portrait you used because it appears to be the missing link.
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” — Albert Einstein
I wonder if Steve Abrams believes the science of acoustics is Satanic.
Great quote!!
Rage,If the waveform in the lower frequencies is regular and comparatively strong, ie. Rock ‘n’ Roll, I’m sure he does!