OT: changing youtube video

[Gary Layng]

On 23/01/13 09:00 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: James Knott<james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
>
> | I recall something on the news a while ago, about a seriously ill child that
> | died.  The parents said they didn't believe in science and so let their child
> | die, relying on faith to save her.
>
> People do things that we consider wrong-headed for a lot of reasons.  This
> one sounds like a clear example.  But a lot of what was done in the name
> of Evolution was scary -- the Holocaust comes to mind (I know, only a
> small part of the justification was Evolution).
Actually, the Nazis banned and burned "On the Origin of Species".  They 
weren't evolution believers, they believed they were the best there was 
ever going to be.

> Supporting "Inteligent Design" under that name is a clear sign of
> wrong-headedness.  The reason is that the name shows what team you got
> your ideas from.
>
> Note: I accuse the video of being from this team.  I didn't acuse
> Zbigniew.
>
> I just saw a PBS Frontline about how FUD has been spread in the US about
> anthropic climate change.  Scary.  I sure wish Canadians had TV programs
> as incisive as Frontline
> <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/climate-of-doubt/>
> Note: this is not trying to make a scientific argument; it shows how
> the science has been neutralized in public discourse.
>
> This sounds like a wierd segue, but the same or related forces seem to be
> inserting ID into science curicula.
And they keep losing.  See the Dover trial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District
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