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!
David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, 1779.