A logical portrayal of illogical people

I rather enjoyed our latest reading. I found it amusing, however depressing a viewpoint of the American population it presented. I read with great enjoyment the buffoonery of a group of people who fancied themselves smarter than the world’s scientific community. I found myself completely engaged by his description of a clueless group of people. And I left the article with a profound sadness that these people are allowed to drive or vote, much less make decisions regarding education in this country.

As a resident of Virginia, where I went to high school, I have significant experience with the undue influence of blind faith (and it is TRULY blind as this article portrays). The type of person that believes in these farcical ideas and claims them to be science does a disservice to not only science as a whole, but to their own point of view. I found myself very comfortable and placated by the author’s tone and style throughout. His dismissive depiction of these people as lying , deceitful, incompetent, and often times drug addicted was the exact thing I found most engaging. A similar debate was ongoing during my senior year of high school, and perhaps this is part of why this article was so engaging. The community in which I live was clearly divided and many people sharing my view point went significantly out of their way to address this ‘science’ on its merits. Mr. Chapman however takes on a viewpoint much more in line with my own. It is a complete waste of time to argue with someone who has such a root misunderstanding of the premise of scientific fact and is willing to distort it (or be told to distort it) due to it not matching their own blind faith. I read his portrayal with great interest and greatly enjoyed the lampooning of people who’s blind faith extends not only to the mythical Christian god in which they believe, but even further, onto anyone who tells them they represent their point of view.

As for the local cancer our community suffered from if anyone is interested, they call themselves Patrick Henry College (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Henry_College).

“The Mission of Patrick Henry College is to prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding. Educating students according to a classical liberal arts curriculum, and training them with apprenticeship methodology, the College provides academically excellent baccalaureate level higher education with a biblical world view.”