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Creationism In Texas Public Schools
An anonymous reader writes "Slate reports on new anti-science education coming out of Texas. The state has a charter school system called Responsive Education Solutions, which is publicly funded. Unfortunately, 'it has been connected from its inception to the creationist movement and to far-right fundamentalists who seek to undermine the separation of church and state.' The biology workbook used in these schools actually reads, "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth." It also brings up social Darwinism as if it's an aspect of evolutionary theory and introduces doubt that the Earth is billions of years old. The article continues, 'To get around court rulings, Responsive Ed and other creationists resort to rhetoric about teaching "all sides" of "competing theories" and claiming that this approach promotes "critical thinking." In response to a question about whether Responsive Ed teaches creationism, its vice president of academic affairs, Rosalinda Gonzalez, told me that the curriculum "teaches evolution, noting, but not exploring, the existence of competing theories."' Other so-called education texts being used by the Responsive Ed program teach Western superiority and how feminism forced women to 'turn to the state as a surrogate husband.'"
The biology workbook used in these schools actually reads, "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth."
This sort of thing is why everyone thinks you're dumb.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
They don't really hate feminism. They hate what feminism has been distorted into by feminists who would just as soon eradicate the males of the species the moment someone figures out how to make two ova undergo meiosis.
Around here we call that dumbass "Taliban Dan." He's one of the worst of the worst of the GOP's "racist fucking moron christian" base-rousers.