Spit-Boy takes a crack at the wonders of the universe I watched this video from Hardball on the web the other day. Matthews had the Baptist minister Terry Fox and Eugenia Scott, executive directer, National Center for Science Education, discussing design vs evolution in education.

What raised this beyond most other moments was Scott's reaction when, after the minister's position had kinda fallen apart, Matthews tries to draw her into something where he can wrestle with her on the point. Matthews asks her how she thinks the world began. She gets this look on her face and says, "Who cares?". How very refreshing. She just kept lasering in the point, are you gonna teach science or are you gonna teach something else?

Yo, Spitboy, I share that Catholic upbringing with you and also that shared history of the Church. I've thought about the very different approach in our early religious education from the fundamentalist one to these matters. These Bible-thumpers seem to be set on a course that will require the re-learning of lessons learned hundreds of years ago by the Catholic Church. And these narrow-minded fundamentalist idiots seem unable to grasp how the outcome of those lessons, Humanism, brought about our country.

And, Spitboy, all that stuff about big explosions and stuff, well, it just adds to my wonderment.  ¶ 4/27/2005 04:44:00 PM