Alabama and Texas

Arguing that the lack of a disclaimer would favor irreligion over religion, promoting hostility towards religion. Apparantly, Alabama and Texas feel that evolution is hostile towards religion.

I’ve made a note of this one for the next time somebody makes the claim that because religion is based on faith it’s arrogant to use reason to criticise it. It looks like the same kind of bad theology that S. James Gates Jr recently criticised:

“But, for me, personally, this debate has another dimension. I spent all of my teenage years, as mentioned in the introduction, in Orlando, Florida. As many people know, the southern African American community is one with a deep tradition of religious faith. The bulk of my religious training occurred in the confines of the African American Methodist Episcopal Church. There, we were taught that faith is to be anchored on the inhuman perfection of religion. If intelligent design is accepted as science, then like all scientific theories, it is in principle possible to disprove it by the actions of human observation and thought. Thus, those who would join the inhuman perfection of religion to the human imperfection of science put both at grave peril for anyone who deeply contemplates them. Many in the AME church tradition, like me, must reject this idea that by thoughts and actions of man our faith can be called into question. This is the very greatest danger, in my opinion, of the notion of intelligent design.” “Einstein’s Lesson for the Third Millennium”

Ed,

The states of Alabama and Texas have filed a brief as amici curiae. I have a copy of their brief on my server. Their AGs are listed as the counsel for the amici.