Virtually anything published by the Discovery institute is guaranteed to be dribbling idiocy. This is why they have no chance of getting their pet crusade past the courts or for that matter past the editors of reputable science journals.
In the podcast, CSC's Annika Smith interviews Kilgore's father, Keith Kilgore. He says that Jesse was a "Christian who believed in ID", who chose to go to a "secular college" because he "wanted to debate, to prove his mettle and what he believed".
Translation: he didn't want to go to college to learn. Important point there. He had obviously been indoctrinated to believe he couldn't be wrong.
Keith Kilgore then calls the college "negligent in presenting only one side", presumably of the debate on evolution and ID. "When you purposely try and undermine a child's world view...that's psychologically damaging", he says.
Blithering nonsense. For a start a 22 year old is not legally, mentally or (one would hope) emotionally a child. Then you have the fact that universities are
institutions of learning. This means that you are expected to learn stuff you didn't know before. if you don't want to do that don't go to university, doofus.
First, it moves on to the issue of academic freedom, which Smith claims that Kilgore supports. It's a notion that has been used by ID proponents in the past in order to try and pave the way for the teaching of ID in public schools, most successfully in Louisiana earlier this year.
Academic freedom does not mean the right to present lies as truth. ID is a massive fail in this respect. The curriculum is fully taken up with teaching the best of current knowledge. Bullshit would be a waste of time and resources.
Secondly, in the podcast Keith Kilgore also mentions the pro-ID film Expelled, directed by Ben Stein and promoted by the Discovery Institute: "I believe if my son saw that movie before it happened, he would be alive today".
A film which is notorious for being one for the worst and most dishonest films ever made.
The film suggests that by teaching evolution without teaching ID, the US public school system is telling children that there is no God, morality or free will, and includes clips of Nazis and the Second World War.
Cretins, and lying cretins at that.
Just when I thought the fundies couldn't sink any lower in their attempts to dress creationism up as science.
Fundies can always sink lower. It's what they do best.
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