[Newspoetry] Who's an educator?

[DL Emerick]

In Kansas, A Sharp Debate on Evolution
Educators Consider Intelligent Design

By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 6, 2005; Page A01

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>>>  Calling elected political leaders who merely happen to have power over education "educators" is a vast error in nomography.  It reeks of the confusions that rule in our contemporary democracy.

>>>  For instance, it is not true that any elected representative of the sovereign people has the power to set aside, ignore or abuse the laws of science.  The sovereignty of the people rests upon their circumspect respect for truth, as the foundation of their own right to hold and to use political power.

>>> Here, a narrow political majority thinks it can refer the question about truth to the classrooms, so that they do not leave God out of the classroom.  Now, even if God were the Author of all truth, the status of a statement, as being True is not determined by who says it is true.  Even if God said that it was true, we do not accept the gossipy hearsay of His followers as evidence.  Afterall, the ALMIGHTY should have enough strength left, even in doddering old age, to speak for Himself, if He ever wants to set the record straight.  And, anyone else just lacks the right powers of attorney to speak for God -- as if God were somehow incompetent, or of an unsound mind.

>>>  The ultimate check and balance, in a democracy, is not the sovereign people.  It is the sovereignty of truth itself, as in "We hold truth to be self-evident" -- above the reasoning of individual persons, and impassioned mobs -- ever enduring, in short, despite all the corruptions of democracy, such as we experience in every demagoguery.