Mornin' all

We haven't had any nutty religious stuff in a while and this turned up on b3ta today. It's a Creationalist science fair aimed at getting kids to perform experiments in support of creationalist and Intelligent Design theory. For those of you not as fascinated with nutjob creationalists as me, Intelligent Design theory (ID) is a set of theories dreamt up by some religious hoohas to make creationalist theory sound believably secular. They did this because the teaching of religiously based theories is not legal in several states of "the Union". Thus they are working to force Creationalist theory onto the school curriculum. In one recent case the school board in a particular state (can't remember which) were ordered to remove stickers from evolution textbooks that read "Evolution is a theory not a fact". I rekon they should have simply been forced to place a sticker on all bibles saying "may be fiction".

Back to the matter at hand and B3ta pointed out the scaled down arc full of Gerbils and the "my uncle is a man named Steve (not a monkey)" exhibit. The whole site is fascinating in an evangelical who the fuck are these nutters sort of way but this one especially caught my eye, as it crosses the boundries of ID theory. It won 2nd Place in the Middle school competition and is entitled : "Women Were Designed For Homemaking"

Jonathan Goode (grade 7) applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry baskets; biology shows that women were designed to carry un-born babies in their wombs and to feed born babies milk, making them the
natural choice for child rearing; social sciences show that the wages for women workers are lower than for normal workers, meaning that they are unable to work as well and thus earn equal pay; and exegetics shows that God created Eve as a companion for Adam, not as a co-worker.

Fucking ace. And for his next trick, Jon-boy will go on to prove through research that "slavery was a justifiable use of animal resource" in which he will point out such scientifically provable truths as; "negroes can be proved to not be intelligent by the empirical measurement of their brainpans" - an actual scientific theory of the 1800s, but you can't ask kids to do groundbreaking research can you?

Bloody hatstand.

Bomber out