Ignorance At Its ‘Best’?
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August
Word on the street is that some education boards in the USA don’t believe in evolution. Actually, believe isn’t really quite the right word. Perhaps a complete denial would be more accurate. Earlier this month, voters in Kansas ensured that noncreationist moderates (???) would have a 6-4 majority on the state school board. Guess what kids? Evolution is back on the science curriculum. Hooray for evolution!!!
Has the DaVinci Code taught us nothing?!? What is it about science that scares the religious community so greatly? From Copernicus’ denouncement as a heretic to Gallileo’s house arrest, those of unflinching religious devotion have sought to stymie scientific progress. All in the face of overwhelming empirical data. Science has no care for either proving or discrediting religious belief - it is a search for knowledge and understanding. The creationist battle in the USA (for starters) is yet another example of one-eyed zealots trying to retard our intellectual future. Is Earth the center of the universe for these people? It was 500 years ago…
Incidentally, in surveys conducted in 2005, no more than 50% of Americans surveyed believed evolution to be true. Why must we continue this inhibitive cycle of ignorance?
Should it really surprise when the Arlington (Texas) school board ammended the public school dress code to ban cleavage amongst its female students (as opposed to banning it amongst the male students, of course)? I would love to see how they’re going to enforce this one.
1. Jimmy James | August 18th, 2006 at 13:43
Evolution theory has holes, creationism has bigger holes and intelligent design sounds like the rantings of a madman, and was probably first written in human shit on an asylum wall.
As unreligios, or even anti-religious as I am I still feel that evolution should be taught as theory and not fact.
I have two more points to make about your post Oz:
1. Who beleives polls taken in the US? If the election of GW has taught us anything, it’s that Americans cannot count,
2. I think they should go one step further in the “ban cleavage” code. Ban women from education.
2. Oz | August 20th, 2006 at 14:30
See what the Daydreamer had to say elsewhere.
“Prayer has no place in the public schools, just like facts have no place in organized religion.”
- Superintendent Chalmers
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