Thursday, November 17, 2005

The Ghostbusters Approach to Science

Christ Mooney, in an article for The American Prospect about the Intelligent Design controversy in Pennsylvania, Kansas and now Oklahoma, aptly calls the latest devolution of creationism the "Ghostbusters approach." Here's a quote:

This science-abusing strategy has reached a pinnacle in Kansas, where the state Board of Education, dominated by anti-evolutionists, has adopted standards that call for teaching about alleged "scientific criticisms" of evolutionary theory, and that redefine the nature of science itself to potentially include non-natural explanations. Call it the Ghostbusters approach: According to Kansas, scientists are now free to go hunting for ghosts, genies, and other supernatural entities. If they happen to discover God along the way so much the better, but let no one say the board has explicitly required it.

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