Letter to the Dayton Daily News Re: Dumb People

This is a letter to the editor I submitted to the Dayton Daily News in Dayton, Ohio. It's referencing a story the paper ran Monday about Christian conservative efforts to shoehorn Creationism into the Springboro school district, a school system near the area where I grew up. The original article can be found here.

In Monday's article regarding Creationism and the Springboro school system, religious fundamentalists displayed an ignorance so profound that it's hard to refrain from accusing them of willful stupidity. Kelly Kohls' claim that Creationism is a significant part of American history is absurd and demonstrates a total lack of knowledge about the movement's history in the United States.

Jo Ellen Myers also seems delighted to shamelessly wallow in her own ignorance. No one with any understanding of the scientific method would claim Evolution's "based on a theory that can't even be proven." The mechanisms that drive evolution are observable and, unlike Creationism, it doesn't rely on supernatural intervention and logical fallacies.

The fact that these reality deniers are arguing Creationism is a counter theory to Evolution demonstrates that, not only do they not understand Evolution, they also don't understand the nonsense they're trying to replace it with. Creationism provides a narrative explaining how life on Earth began - Evolution makes no such claim. If anything, these people should be attacking abiogenesis. But intellectual honesty isn't a priority when the goal is to defend a belief that's been completely disproved by observable, natural phenomenon.

Anyone concerned with children's education should be horrified that these radicals are allowed to serve in the public education system. If fundamentalists want to corrupt their own kids' minds, they're free to home school them and send them to any number of non-accredited Bible "universities". But using tax dollars to force their fringe beliefs on children is obscene.