Chimp Genome
Thanks to JZ I learned that the complete chimpanzee genome is out in Nature. The articles comparing chimp genome to ours are fascinating. It will take me a long while to digest them, but the first thing that came to my mind is that in face of this how anyone could doubt our kinship with the chimps, and, by extension, evolution. It is a total waste of time to argue with ID. You can never convince people who do not want to be convinced. As for school curriculum, let's just put all these new facts that no one can argue with into the textbooks. Even my kindergartener would find ID totally contrived if they ever succeed in putting ID into the textbooks as well. Plus there are already all kinds of indoctrinations going on anyway, the foremost being the daily Pledge of Allegiance. What more harm could ID do?