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SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 06/15/2009 : 04:14:19
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Florida is rapidly gaining on CA as the nation's center for per capita whackaloonery. Why they so desire this ignominious title, I cannot say, but they're working hard at it.
Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859; it wasn't until this February that Florida's state Board of Education voted to allow teachers to utter the word "evolution." But Sen. Ronda Storms, ever a vigilant foe of egghead secularism, has filed a bill to strike a blow for biblical science.
According to the "Ain't Kin to No Monkey Act" of 2008 (also known as S 2692), teachers would be protected from "discrimination" for presenting "scientific information relevant to the full range of views on biological and chemical origins." In other words, instead of learning how natural selection is the fundamental principle of biological and medical knowledge, if an instructor tells students there's a "debate" over evolution and "alternatives" to natural selection, he or she won't get fired or reassigned to the comparative religions classroom. |
In other words, a teacher could toss science and blather on about biological community found on Noah's Ark and suffer no reprimand, even though he ought to have his ass kicked out the school house door and clear down to the nearest church, where he would be much happier anyway.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Creationist lunacy never rests, either
