Perfect…

I don’t even think I have to say anything about the video.

Just watch:

Conservapedia takes on Science

For those of you who have never visited the website Conservapedia.com, I suggest you go read some of their “articles, especially the ones discussing homosexuality and evolution. Comedic gold I tell you…Gold.

Now, they have decided to take on science for real. Now keep in mind the man who runs Conservapedia, Andy Schlafly has no background in biology.  He runs the website along with a group of (really unfortunate) home-school students.  So, this makes his attempt to take on Dr. Richard Lenski who recently released a study of E. coli.  Schlafly decided to write a letter. From Off Resonance:

Which Beliefs Deserve Respect? Part I

This post is a result of a discussion that I had in the comments of a re-post of my note “Bad Parenting” on Facebook. I argued that while as members of a (supposedly) open society we are often told that we should treat all ideas equally and respect others’ beliefs, this eventually leads not to a breakdown of traditional moral values that those on the Right seem to be so afraid of, but to consequences that damage the pursuit of equality in our country and the world. That said, there are two perspectives that I would like to look at this from. The first, and possibly more straightforward, is the scientific perspective. This perspective will be used to examine ideas such as Creationism, naturopathy, homeopathy, and faith healing that claim to be scientific beliefs and ideas. The second is a socio-political perspective: Ideas such as racism, sexism, and classism.

Recently in the United States, there has been a great deal of debate regarding whether or not certain ideas should be taught in science classrooms. The most publicized debate has been between those who wish to teach a hypothesis (at best) called Intelligent Design. Those who are subscribers to this hypothesis claim that the evidence for Evolution just doesn’t exist. The problem is, that they offer no evidence besides what amounts to religious reasoning. Despite this, some say that both sides of the argument must be heard in the name of “fairness”. The problem is that science is not necessarily about being “fair”.

In science, a hypothesis must be testable and falsifiable. That way, research and experiment can be used to determine whether or not the hypothesis a person proposes is factual. This is where ideas such as Intelligent Design fail. There is no way to test “God did it”. Thus, Intelligent Design cannot be considered scientific, and should not be given the same treatment as tested theories, such as Evolution. However, this does not only apply to the Intelligent Design vs. Evolution debate. In essence, what the proponents of Intelligent Design are saying that despite what overwhelming evidence says, they are correct. Some even go as far to say that God placed fossils in the fossil record to “test our faith”.