Reply #9: The Globe published WHAT??????

[ladym55]

OMG. I apologize for being a few days late in joining in the conversation, but OMG again. When a supposedly respected paper like the Globe publishes total garbage, I go over the edge.

Excuse the brief rant, but whatever happened to JOURNALISM in the United States ... you know, where JOURNALISTS actually researched what they were writing, and their editors actually did little things like FACT CHECKING.

I expect this level of stupid in the LTTE of a newspaper in Ohio (we have LOTS of fundamentalist Christians out here, which makes for fun and exciting science classes), but not from the Globe.

We have developed a mindset that all arguments are equal. They aren't. A good argument is based on evidence. ID and its predecessor, creationism, are not based on evidence. They are based on a literal interpretation of Genesis 1. And to make their arguments work, I've had fundamentalists tell me that people and dinosaurs were here at the same time (umm, no) or that Catholics planted fossils to test our faith. (I kid you not.) ID supporters sneer and say that evolution is a "theory," not understanding that scientific theory is carefully tested. It is not something that scientists decide to say today for fun. And yet somehow because we have short-circuited our ability to argue clearly and thoughtfully based on real evidence.

Caribou Barbie is in the WaPo and this is in the Globe. Wow. :wow: