Stupid Design

The New York Times reports that "[s]everal Imax theaters, including some in science museums, are refusing to show movies that mention the subject - or the Big Bang or the geology of the earth - fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin of Earth and its creatures."

-- via Balkinization.

Whoa. Can you ignorant yourself to death? Boy, I hope so.

There's a good essay (which I haven't read all of) called Metaphor, Morality and Politics, Or, Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust by George Lakoff that's well worth reading.