Dr. sets out to test ID by studying NASCAR drivers

[shockingelk]

No, this isn't from The Onion:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/28/AR2005082800964.html

Jeffrey M. Schwartz, a neuroscientist and research professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, is a believer in ID, or as he prefers to call it, "intrinsic intelligence." Schwartz wants to launch a study of NASCAR drivers, to better understand their extraordinary focus. He finds Darwinism, as it applies to a high-performance athlete such as Tony Stewart, to be problematic. To claim that Stewart's mental state as he handles a high-speed car "is a result of nothing more than random processes coming together in a machine-like way is not a coherent explanation," Schwartz said.

[Kerrytravelers]

1. I can't believe a prestigious university like UCLA would allow their

dollars to be wasted on shuch drivel.

And, this is coming from a USC grad!

[grumpy old fart]

6. I'm sure it's a grant from some fudie front group. Universities don't fund

studies.

[grumpy old fart]

8. And the Prof. only says he "wants to study" NASCAR drivers....

"Schwartz wants to launch a study of NASCAR drivers.." So I guess it's a grant proposal, though some fundie group will probably agree to fund it...Man, I wish I could get a grant to "study" NBA Basketball, I could save a lot of money on season tickets..

[beam me up scottie]

2. Hmmmm.

Nascar drivers didn't evolve...not so hard to believe, considering most of their fans still have their knuckles dragging on the ground behind them when they go to get more beer.

[tjwmason]

4. Perhaps they'll look at the drivers - then at some of the fans

and declare the latter to be one of the "missing links".

[shockingelk]

5. and if we find a missing link

The IDer will say "Look! TWO missing links"

[onager]

3. And for another not coherent explanation, Dr. Asshat...

Try "nothing more than random processes coming together in a machine-like way" as a description of evolution.

[grumpy old fart]

7. hmmmm, the columnist who wrote the piece is an idiot too.......

"First, let's get rid of the idea that ID (intelligent design) is a form of sly creationism. It isn't. ID is unfairly confused with the movement to teach creationism in public schools".

What a moron. ID's ONLY purpose is to get the fudie foot in the door of schools.

http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html