The Panda's Thumb: Letter to the St. Petersburg Times on ID Poll

The Panda's Thumb: Letter to the St. Petersburg Times on ID Poll:

"As for explaining why ID isn’t science, I think it would be more useful to have a general “BS detector” class, in which people are taught critical thinking skills which they can then apply to everything from deodorant ads to flying saucer stories to political campaign speeches, rather than just focusing narrlowly on ID.

But there’s the rub —- much of our modern economic and social structure is based largely on BS, and the very LAST thing the powers that be want, is to have a population that is skilled in detecting and pointing out BS when they see it."

And in any case, our education system isn’t geared towards actually educating people or teaching them how to think. It’s geared to give people just enough skill level to do their low-level service sectror job without messing up too often.