Kansas Kangaroo Court Transcripts

PZ Meyers over at the Pharyngula blog has a sample of the transcripts of the recent hearings at the Kansas State of Education. In case you’d forgotten, this is where a variety of "expert" witnesses attempted to make the case for Intelligent Design to be taught in the schools in Kansas.

The transcripts make sad, sad reading. However, while Meyers feels that the transcripts amply illlustrate the depths of stupidity of IDiots, I feel that one should never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups (I even have a T-shirt bearing that very slogan). This skirmish in Kansas will not be the last. The Demon-Haunted World grows ever stronger, and the candle of Science may yet gutter before the forces of superstition and ignorance that seem to be growing in the US at the moment.