Isn’t it time for us to at least try to have a very public debate about this stuff? Or perhaps its time that "Seperation of Church and State" actually meant something again.
I admit my involvement with my kids’ school board is minimal but the time is fast approaching when I am going to have to start attending meetings and asking questions like "Sir, if your faith and belief in the Lord God Almighty is so strong, don’t you feel that its truth can’t be threatened by science? Good, then let my kid take Earth science 101 without your God fearing non-subject related tripe interfering. If you want me to convert to your beliefs knock on my door at 8 in the morning and take your chances that I own a rabid chihuahua just like the Jehova’s Witnesses do!"
"I am under censure for mentioning numbers…." "I am instructed NOT to use hard numbers when telling kids how old rocks are. I am supposed to say that these rocks are VERY VERY OLD… but I am NOT to say that these Ordovician rocks are thought to be about 300 million years old."Essentially, they are not allowing Bob to teach a certain set of scientific data in order to protect their ability to provide students the good science curriculum they do teach. The directors… have heard from them more than enough times that teaching evolution would be "political suicide".
In Arkansas, even supporters of teaching evolution feel they must hide, obfuscate, and water-down evolution.
(Via Metafilter)
