Jindal’s Belief in Hogwash
Since we are celebrating the 200th annivesarty of Charles Darwin’s birth, it’s time to bring this video clip back to the forefront. Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican minion favorite, supports the teaching of Intelligent Design in direct contrast to our Constitution as seen in the Kitzmeiller v. Dover Area School District et. al decision (pdf).
Forget for the moment about Jindal’s taste for the occasional exorcism or love of earmarks (14th overall while a Congressman), his belief alone in Intelligence Design and his subsequent dismal of the U. S. Constitution, Bobby Jindal should not be considered a good Republican.
Wait, maybe he’s the perfect Republican . . . at least it appears that the Radical Right bloggers over a Delaware Politics think so.
Tags: Delaware Blogosphere, Jindal, Radical Right
Jindal already torpedoed his future by stating that as a Congressman he would have voted against the stimulus – but as a governor he’d take the money. The creationism thing is just icing on the cake, insuring he will not be nationally viable.
Let’s be real. Jindal was pulled into the Republican spotlight to illustrate their inclusiveness. It was a cynical and reactionary response to Obama becoming the Democratic nominee.
Not saying Jindal’s views aren’t nutty enough, just that the timing of his rise to center stage was politically obvious.
Stick a fork in Piyush Jindal.
In the clip he tries to strike and accommodationist stance concerning evolution. However, he knows full well that on the GOP side he is dealing with a base that views any compromise as weakness.
They’ll pick at this compromise stance until he admits (like a good little Republican office seaker) that God made everything 10,000 years ago.
A Huckabee-Jindal primary promises to be very entertaining. I predict it will end with one of them dressing like Moses.
For your own edification, and an excellent source of Creationist talking points smackdowns, check out the PBS special on the Dover case (It was on over the weekend – I’m sure it will be on again very soon). It has interviews with the original school board members who wanted to have creationism taught in Science classes, plus re-enactments of the court testimony, which certainly will help the layman understand the difference between an idea, such as a Geppetto-like creator, and Scientific Theory – like the Theory of Gravity.
You know that in 150 years of empirical testing, not one shred of evidence has surfaced to refute, or call into question, the Theory of Evolution?
Wait a minute. He didn’t say everyone who’s not white, male, heterosexual and in love with Jebus shouldn’t be allowed to express their views on how the world was created and how such creation management will make sure all those not falling into the above category will live an eternity in pain, unless we get you into Gitmo first.
Or maybe he did.
Jindal is just a smarter version of Sarah Palin.
I agree with VC, the PBS Dover documentary is excellent. For a good source of creationist/ID claims and the counter-arguments go here:
Index of Creationist Claims (from Talk Origins.
Shit, GWB thought that atheists are not real Americans (whateverthefuckthatmeans!)…that’s what he said while running for Gov in TX.
Well I thought he wasn’t a real leader…so there!
VC is quite right — those who want to insert Intelligent Design or Creationism into a science class have no scientific evidence whatsoever to support their con games. Of course, the IDers will claim that Evolution has none, either — which is , of course, a lie.
One of the things that really perplexes me about the entire business is how much these IDers really devalue science. Which, in terms of long term economic survival, just seems stupid for a country to do. One of the rationales for the HB1 visa program is that we are not producing enough scientists and engineers to meet the very real demand in our economy. These are jobs that are difficult to outsource and usually pay really well. Plus we won’t get the kind of technical innovation that the economy desperately needs if we are hell bent on producing a society whose main ambition is for celebrity.
VC, the NOVA episode was the catalyst for posting this today.
For everyone else, if you want more information take a look here.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/
The idiocy is that IDers think that “I have a theory on why my neighbor cheated on his wife” and scientific theory are the same things.
Pandora, I think that is a result of a fairly spectacular failure of the scientific education system — part and parcel of why so few American kids get inspired to get into the business.
Read this when you have 20 minutes.
http://www.tnr.com/story.html?id=1e3851a3-bdf7-438a-ac2a-a5e381a70472
“He’s controversial amongst people who don’t know anything, but if you talk to people who are actually educated, he’s not really controversial.”
Ricard Dawkins on Darwin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7885670.stm
“staggeringly ignorant or insane”
which is Jindal… I say the latter. What say you? 🙂
http://natgeochannel.co.uk/programmes/dawkins-darwin-evolution/videos/dawkins-creationism