Letting the religious right teach ID in schools is like letting the Marines teach poetry in advanced combat training. As a scientist, I see these the relevancy between the two sets to be equal. If Kansas is going to mess up like this, the least it can do is not be hypocritical and allow equal time for other alternative "theories" like FSMism, which is by far the tastier choice.
Julian SimonAdding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the worldโs progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is peopleโespecially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with libertyโwho will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.
Julian SimonFriedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By the time of his death, his fundamental way of thought had supplanted the system of John Maynard Keynes - his chief intellectual rival of the century - in the battle since the 1930s for the minds of economists and the policies of governments.
Julian Simon