It looks like the war of reason versus superstition is still going strong in the Bible Belt. Take a look at this “gem”.
Eighty years after a famed courtroom battle in Tennessee pitted religious beliefs about the origins of life against the theories of British scientist Charles Darwin, Kansas is holding its own hearings on what school children should be taught about how life on Earth began.
The Kansas Board of Education has scheduled six days of courtroom-style hearings to begin Thursday in Topeka. More than two dozen witnesses will give testimony and be subject to cross-examination, with the majority expected to argue against teaching evolution.
Many prominent U.S. scientific groups have denounced the debate as founded on fallacy and have promised to boycott the hearings, which opponents say are part of a larger nationwide effort by religious interests to gain control over government.
“I feel like I’m in a time warp here,” said Topeka attorney Pedro Irigonegaray who has agreed to defend evolution as valid science. “To debate evolution is similar to debating whether the Earth is round. It is an absurd proposition.”
Apparently the Kansas Board of Education has decided to put evolution “on trial”. What the hell is that?!? And people wonder why the US is losing its technological edge. We have to be the only damned western industrialized nation that would allow such stupidity to occur!
This falls in line with the “vast left-wing conspiracy” that you would hear about back when Clinton was president. My favorite part is the one about the student who felt he was persecuted when the professor told him he could leave if he wanted to discuss (not so) Intelligent Design instead of evolution. And people wonder why the US is starting to lag behind…
TALLAHASSEE — Republicans on the House Choice and Innovation Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to pass a bill that aims to stamp out “leftist totalitarianism” by “dictator professors” in the classrooms of Florida’s universities.
The Academic Freedom Bill of Rights, sponsored by Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, passed 8-to-2 despite strenuous objections from the only two Democrats on the committee.”
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (AP)——Rolling Stone magazine declined to run an advertisement for a new translation of the Bible aimed at young people, the nation’s largest Bible publisher said Wednesday.
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On Tuesday, USA Today quoted Kent Brownridge, general manager of Wenner Media, as saying his staff first saw the ad copy last week, and “we are not in the business of publishing advertising for religious messages.”
I just love it! About time someone took a stand with all the government “faith-based” initiatives and the Moral Minority, er… Majority claiming a “mandate” to set the clock back to the Dark Ages regarding the sciences and women’s reproductive rights.
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