Pat Robertson: World Terrorist

Pat Robertson, 700 Club founder and resident international terrorist (he did, after all, threaten the life of a world leader), proved once again that Intelligent Design ain't what it's cracked up to be. Robertson is now threatening the town of Dover, PA, because the thinking townspeople voted out the ID crowd in local school board elections. Via CNN:

"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city," Robertson said on his daily television show broadcast from Virginia, "The 700 Club."

Which made me go Freudian for a moment. ID, it's all about the id.

P.S. For the real smackdown on Intelligent Design, read Charles Pierce's piece in Esquire this month titled Greetings from Idiot America. He says:

The rise of Idiot America is essentially a war on expertise. It's not so much antimodernism or the distrust of intellectual elites that Richard Hofstadter deftly teased out of the national DNA forty years ago. Both of those things are part of it. However, the rise of Idiot America today represents—for profit mainly, but also, and more cynically, for political advantage and in the pursuit of power—the breakdown of a consensus that the pursuit of knowledge is a good. It also represents the ascendancy of the notion that the people whom we should trust the least are the people who best know what they're talking about. In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a preacher, or a scientist, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.

It's a great read. And it exposes why we're lead to believe that just because someone says it so makes it so. Time to wake up now.