To the editor:

The ayatollahs of Kansas have spoken again. This time to the heathen university in Lawrence. Their message: Stop this pernicious teaching of things we don’t like or suffer the consequences. We can’t allow intellectual curiosity to interfere with our sacred intelligent design doctrine.

People asking themselves why the fight against those forcing religious dogma into our educational system is important should pay attention as state legislators like Kay O’Connor who threaten Dr. Paul Mirecki and Kansas University for the crime of doing what they do best: educating.

To answer the question of why KU should have a class about intelligent design, I’ll adopt the popular phrase of the intelligent design crowd: KU should “teach the controversy” of intelligent design. Too bad for the intelligent design folks that KU isn’t as easily hoodwinked as the Board of Education was to be coerced into pretending that intelligent design is science.

I find it funny how weak-kneed the intelligent design crowd really is when it comes down to it. They feel free to bully their dogma into the public schools, where they know their phony-baloney so-called science won’t be subjected to any scientific rigor, but then they loudly cry foul as soon as the 800-pound intellectual giant steps into the ring. It leads me to ask them, “What’s the matter? Afraid to prove there’s something to intelligent design?” They are afraid, because they know there’s nothing behind the curtain of intelligent design but the hot air of conservative politicians.

Jim Boyd,

Lawrence