ID and IDM

Today's poem:

Said the ape to the man with a grin:
"Lend me some dough for I see we are kin."

Said the man as agitated as the French Revolution:
"Fie! Fie! Scram, begging beast! I hold not with evolution."

Said the needy chimp with a quizzical glance:
"But, cuz, I'm in hock. Don't deny years of good science."

Said the man: "Those scientist with pretentious poses
Don't replace God's account copyrighted by Moses."

Countered the ape with avant garde theology:
"Creation is the result; evolution's her methodology."

The man shouted with great exasperation:
"I hold with King James and a literal interpretation."

In a UFO on high the alien captain overheard the row
And said: "Drat! Another Bill O'Reily-like dumb talk show!"

Today's thoughts:

If you're Catholic, Holy Mother Church gives you darn clear advice on sex. But if you want the skinny on evolution, things get murky. My priest told me that as long as scientists don't deny that at some point, God put a soul in a man and woman, evolution is not irreligious.

Others like the writers De Marco and Wiker, place evolutionists alongside Karl Max, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Sanger and Cosmo's Helen Gurley Brown as "architects of the culture of death." Strangely, Hugh Heffner did not make the cut. Maybe De Marco and Wiker like Playboy's articles.

But I digress. Even though Catholics argue over the mechanics of creation, we all agree that this universe was created. Keep that in mind.

Anyway, a few years ago, the State Board of Education in Kansas mandated that the biblical account of creation be taught in science classes in our fine public schools. What happened? We got laughed at, bubba, big time.

So at the next election, so-called moderate Republicans replaced the conservatives. Whew! We said.

Ah, but then came 2004 and John Kerry. The cons wrested control of the BOE from the mods. You see, that vile Kerry guy got our cons to the polls to be sure God's man, Bush, got reelected.

Now, you can't teach cons much, Lord knows. But they do accidentally learn a trifle now and then. And, Lord knows, they are sly. So when they took over, the Pentateuch was not re-elevated to a science text.

Instead, what they did was to fight for inclusion of Intelligent Design in discussions of evolution.

What is ID? ID is the belief that the world is just too complex to have happened by chance; it had to be designed. By whom? Dears hearts, it wasn't Tommy Hilfigler. It was You Know Who and by Him, we don't mean Harry Potter's nemesis. We mean God.

At least, I do. I buy ID as a belief. I love it as a belief. I don't buy it as science.

But the cons on the BOE do. Heck, they even changed the definition of science from "natural explanations of natural phenomena" to "logical explanations to natural phenomena."

But you object to that? Tough. It Doesn't Matter.

Tomorrow, I hope, IDM elucidated or why being in the GOP is so much fun.

Keep hoping.