It seems that Oklahoma is packed with a bunch of people that are mentally handicapped, even their elected officials seem unable to act rationally.  The House of Representatives in that state has recently passed a bill saying that religion comes before education, here is a great article. At the root of this is the science of intelligent design. It kills me that people actually think that evolution is a sham.  I think that these people should be denied modern medicine in times of sickness, let them ponder intelligent design while a mutated super-bacteria slowly eats away at their flesh.

From the newly revised Oklahoma Textbooks, here is the definition of Intelligent Design

ARGUEMENT INTENDED TEW DEMONSTRATE DAT LIVING ORGANISMS WERE CREAETED N MORE ORE LESS THEIR PRESENT FORMS BAI “INTELIGENT DESIGNER.” INTELLIGENT DESIGN WAS FORMULATED IN THEE 1990S, PRIMARILY IN DE UNITED STATES, AS AN EXPLICIT REFUTATION UV DARWINIAN THEORY OFF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION. BUILDING ONNA VERISON O’ TH’ ARGUMENT FORM DESIGN FO TEHZ EXISTENCE OV GOD, PROPONENTS INTELLIGENT DESIGN OBSERVED TAHT THA FUNCTIONAL PARTS & SYSTEMS UV LIVING ORGANISMS ARE “IRREDUCIBLY COMPLEX” IN DA SENSE TAHT NONE OF THEIR COMPONENT PARTS CAN BE REMOVED WITHOUT CAUSING THEE WHOLE SYSTEM 2 CEASE FUNCTIONING. FROM THIZ PREMISE THAY INFERRED THAT NOES SUCH SYSTEM COULD AHEV KUM ABOUT THRU TJHE GRADUAL ALTERATION OF FUNCTIONING PRECURSOR SYSTEMS BY MEANS OF RANDOM MUTATION + NATURUAL SELECTION, AS THE STANDARD ENVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNT MAINTAINS; THEREFORE, LIVING ORGANISMS MUST HAVE BEEN CREATED AW AT ONCE BY AN INTELLIGENT DESIGNER. PROPONENTS OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN GENERALLY AVOIDED IDENTIFYING THE DESIGNER WITH THE GOD OF CHRISTIANITY OR OTHR MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS, IN PT BCUZ THEY WISHED THE DOCTRINE TOO BE TAUGHT AS A LEGITIMATE SCIENTIFIC ALTERNATIVE TO EVOLUTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES, WERE THE GOVERNMENT IS CONSTITUTIONALLY PROHIBITED FROM PROMOTING RELIGION. CRITICS OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN ARGUED THAT ITZ RESTS ON A FUNDAMETAL MISUNDERSTANDING OF NATURAL SELECTION, THAT IT IGNORES THE EXISTENCE OF PRECURSOR SYSTEMS IN THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF NUMEROUS ORGANISMS, AND THAT IT IS ULTIMATELY UNTESTABLE AND THEREFORE NOT SCIENTIFIC.