Can anyone think of a less qualified group of people to do justice to a public debate on the subject of Evolution versus Intelligent Design? For that matter, why do we still have this ridiculous debate at all?
So, from what I saw posted on the Huffington Post, the always shrill Joy Behar takes on Sherri Shepherd and Elizabeth Hasselbeck (together, the living proof that ignorance and outright stupidity is not determined by skin color). They all yell and yell and yell, and somewhere, I realize, fissures in space-time are opening up due to the dissonant racket. Perhaps the Bible-thumping ladies of the View were just trying to do their very best to bring about the Rapture or something. In this fracas, Joy Behar was the harpied voice of reason, either unwilling to bring together the easier salient points to stymie her so-called opponents or unable because she's not that into science herself.
Here's an example of how to insult a fundamentalist blonde (or black chick for that matter): Evolutionary Biology is science reinforced by observable phenomena and lab experiments, and Creationism is Religion, a thing that requires belief without any kind of proof. Arguing that Creationism undercuts Evolutionary Biology is like saying Math doesn't work because my Leprechaun told me so. You can't prove my Leprechaun doesn't exist, thus you must abandon your reasoned and rational approach to science and give equal air time to my stories about little green men and their pots of gold.
By all means, teach creation stories and myths in school...as a social studies class. And don't forget to give equal time to all the creation stories still believed today by Hindus, Buddhists, Pagans, etc. Also, make sure you can fund this despite the funding crunch in which many schools find themselves.
Oh, and here's how the Earth truly came to be:
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