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Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong
rollcall writes "'Galileo Was Wrong' is an inaugural conference to discuss the 'detailed and comprehensive treatment of the scientific evidence supporting Geocentrism, the academic belief that the Earth is immobile in the center of the universe.' The geocentrists argue that 'Scientific evidence available to us within the last 100 years that was not available during Galileo's confrontation shows that the [Catholic] Church's position on the immobility of the Earth is not only scientifically supportable, but it is the most stable model of the universe and the one which best answers all the evidence we see in the cosmos.' I, like many of you, am scratching my head wondering how people still think this way. Unfortunately, there is still a significant minority of Western people who believe that the Earth is the center of the universe: 18% of Americans, 16% of Germans, and 19% of Britons."
I hope there is live blogging from the conference.
Sorry. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 pretty much did away with literacy tests for voters. Sigh.
"Maybe because the literacy tests had nothing to do with knowledge and everything about cultural familiarity?"
If you take out the word "white" from your sentence its actually an argument in favor of literacy tests. I'm not sure how our language is 'white' culture in the first place so it doesn't seem to belong.
Since English literacy is a requirement for gaining citizenship in the United States it seems fair enough to require it to vote.