Note: This was originally posted on my website, as part of my regular Brains on Vacation segment on the "Are We Alone" radio show. My blog gets a lot more traffic, so I decided to go the easy way out tonight and post it here. You can get the audio part of the interview (later, James Randi comes on!) here
. You can dress creationism up, but you can't take it anywhere.
At least, not to Utah. In a surprising but extremely wise move, the Utah Board of Education has decided that the so-called "Intelligent Design" idea -- that life is too complex to have occurred naturally, and is the product of a designer, aka God-- is not scientific, and should not be taught in Utah public schools. This, despite heavy pressure from one of their state senators, Chris Buttars (R-West Jordan), who has been railing against evolution for quite ...
