I’ve been subscribed to the Scientific American, 60 Second Science podcast for a few months now. Today’s cracked me up for several reasons. First of all, it wasn’t 60 seconds, it was 3 minutes and 45 seconds.
There are a few personalities that take turns each day doing the bit. Today’s was by Steve Mirsky and was another rebuttal to Expelled. It’s funny at the beginning how annoyed he sounds that he has had to watch this movie multiple times. “Because of my JOB I’ve had the misfortune of sitting through this film twice now, at least I was getting paid.”, says Steve. He points out the Darwin quote that Ben Stein reads in the film to try to make a case that evolution leads to Nazism.
I didn’t realize that Huckabee said the following:
“The First Amendment requires that expressions of faith be neither prohibited nor preferred. We should not banish religion from the public square, but should guarantee access to all voices and views. We should share and debate our faith, but never seek to impose it.”
I completely agree with that. I just wonder if he actually understands what it means. Most “religious” people I know mis-characterize the insistence by atheist to remove mandatory prayer from schools and other public facilities as some kind of desire to ban religion. When in reality, it is our desire to enforce the First Amendment and make sure that the government isn’t imposing a religion (invariably Christianity).
Huckabee, made some scary comments when he was running for the republican nomination. Some of which did not seem to jive with this one. This seems so reasonable, it makes me suspicious.