Good News From Texas (For A Change)

From the Wall Street Journal, Austin federal judge Sam Sparks has dismissed a suit by the Dallas-based Institute of Creation Research, which sought the right to grant a master’s degree in “science from a biblical perspective.” I’m sure they’ll study such interesting topics as:

• Plants being created, growing and making fruit before there was any light for photosynthesis. (Genesis 1:11)
• How you can get goats to have striped kids by putting striped sticks in front of them while they copulate. (Genesis 30:37)
• What kind of bird a bat is. (Leviticus 11:13)
• How birds used to have four feet. (Leviticus 11:20)
• The amount of weight a unicorn can carry (Numbers 23:22)

And that’s just in the first three books! I bet there’s all kinds of scientificky stuff in there just waiting to be discovered!

My favorite part, though, is that the judge called the Institute of Creation Research group’s legal filings as “overly verbose, disjointed, incoherent, maundering and full of irrelevant information.” You know what that means? It means they submitted the Bible as a legal brief. Can you imagine anything more “verbose, disjointed, incoherent, maundering and full of irrelevant information” than the Bible?

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