Downfall of IDiocy

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The so-called Discovery Institute is a pretentious über-Christian disguise for creationism and an ultra-Conservative social agenda called The Wedge Strategy. So-called Intelligent Design theory is plagiarized from William Paley's long-refuted Blind Watchmaker argument, and is merely creationism in a not-so-cunning disguise.

Having neither facts nor logic at their disposal, the polemicists of the so-called Discovery Institute have been forced to resort to lies and subterfuge. One of their favorite tricks is to file false DMCA claims against videos that are critical of their IDiotic organization. They own NONE of the material in this video.

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Younger offspring: In the summer, we went to Yosemite and stayed in a cabin. We had to be really careful about bears. We couldn't leave any food outside at all -- not even a food wrapper in the car, because sometimes bears get into cars if they think they smell food.
Would you believe I still get email about cracker abuse? At least this one is novel in its tone.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a traveler in Central Africa made mention of some strange people that he had come across. He was traveling among regular, run-of-the-mill natives...probably Bantu-speaking people living in scattered villages and farming for their food.

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Heh, it wasn't even original with Paley. The argument belongs to a fictional character of Cicero's in his On the Nature of the Gods.

I touched on it a bit last March, a few paragraphs into this post about a discussion with my son while we were on our way down to UNCW to listen to that pompous blowhard Michael Behe.