Score one for rational thought! Kind of…
Yesterday the critical thinking faction of the Texas State Board of Education defeated the efforts of their religious idealogue colleagues to ensure the state’s schoolchildren would never be instructed in any scientific principles that contradict their deeply-held fairy stories of creation. Because, you know, science equals alchemy, which was [...]
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Darwin Totally Messing With Texas
Posted in Heroes, Politics, Yay! Also tagged Charles Darwin, Christians, creation, Creationism, Darwin, Don McLeroy, educational standards, evangelical Christians, evangelicals, Evolution, GOP, ideologues, natural selection, Religion, Republicans, science, scientific evidence, Texas, Texas School Board, Texas State Board of Education Comments closed
Evolution vs Creationism: Part One
Apologies, gentle reader, I’m still pretty sick. In the meantime, enjoy this BBC documentary.
Kiddie Costumes Deemed “Racist”
Soccer moms in search of a cause are targeting the inherent “racism” in the Thanksgiving celebration of elementary schools in Claremont, California.
Granted there has always been a strange irony in celebrating this holiday, a commemoration of the nanosecond of peaceful harmony that preceded white settlers’ full-scale slaughter of the indigenous inhabitants of North America. But [...]
Posted in Today in Crazy, Whine & Cheese Also tagged California, costumes, Indians, Pilgrims, racism, Thanksgiving Comments closed
Is Our Children Learning?
Apparently not, according to the Alaska Daily News:
“Battling one of the worst dropout rates in the country, Alaska educators gathered for a third day on Saturday to brainstorm how to stop the epidemic of kids quitting school before earning their diplomas. They called dropping out a result of an accumulative failure, which can start before [...]
Posted in Politics Also tagged ADN, Alaska, drop-put rates, FL, GOP Governors Convention, Machiavelli, Miami Comments closed
Modest Proposal: Teaching the Revealed Truth of Human Origins
I’ve long-argued in my own mind about the necessity of allocating precious public school instruction hours for the vigorous debate of rational alternatives to the so-called “theory” of evolution. It heartens me to know I’ve discovered a sort of kindred spirit in Sarah Palin, bless her heart, who said about the creation/evolution debate in a [...]