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Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War
ideonexus writes "I've been lackadaisical when it comes to following stories about Texas schoolboard attempts to slip creationism into biology textbooks, dismissing the stories as just 'dumbass Texans,' but what I didn't realize is that Texas schoolbooks set the standard for the rest of the country. And it's not just Creationism that this Christian coalition is attempting to bring into schoolbooks, but a full frontal assault on history, politics, and the humanities that exploits the fact that final decisions are being made by a school board completely academically unqualified to make informed evaluations of the changes these lobbyists propose. This evangelical lobby has successfully had references to the American Constitution as a 'living document,' as textbooks have defined it since the 1950s, removed in favor of an 'enduring Constitution' not subject to change, as well as attempting to over-emphasize the role Christianity played in the founding of America. The leaders of these efforts outright admit they are attempting to redefine the way our children understand the political landscape so that, when they grow up, they will have preconceived notions of the American political system that favor their evangelical Christian goals."
It's just a shame that the processes of evolution will take way too long for this rubbish to devolve or become extinct.
Evolution doesn't claim to, either. Your ignorance is showing again. You should really keep it zipped up better.
Evolution simply describes the change of organisms from one to another, from one species to another, and gives mechanisms for the "order and complexity" you mention. The sun is a very powerful force. But Evolution says nothing about the beginning of time or life. That's a question for another theory, such as the Big Bang and so on.
A brief Google of your chaos bullshit would disprove it. But you don't want to be educated. Please do us a favor and keep your willful ignorance to yourself, so it doesn't contaminate someone who wants to learn.
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
Because this is Slashdot and there are fundamentalist atheists here that rival fundamentalist Christian in the ability to relentlessly attack ideas that are not the same as their own.
Pot, meet Kettle.
Yeah, but he's still the crappiest president of my lifetime.
wow, for a 9 year old, you sure do have a really low slashdot ID.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil