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Evolution, Textbooks, Fake Science
Continuing the discussion of the evolution sticker story is this insightful essay from Maud Newton: Blog which looks at the possible consequences of fake science ending up in textbooks. The piece has lots of good reading in it, but I’ll just quote a little from the wrap-up. It’s bad enough that adults are being seduced by, or at least remain… Read more →
Bible stickers
Following up our earlier post on the evolution textbook sticker battle. I read with much amusement this post on BoingBoing about the controversy. And since it amused me so, I made up a Word document containing labels with Gary’s text, preformatted for Avery 8161 labels. For those of you without Word, I used the FastPDF service to convert the Word… Read more →
A few follow-ups
So, still sick, but capable of posting some follow-up links on some things I’ve talked about before. One of the topics I’ve discussed a lot is the whole “forcing creationism into schools” thing, one classic example of which was the whole evolution sticker thing. Well, you may recall that back in January the courts (correctly!) ordered the stickers removed. Apparently… Read more →
Sometimes the world is not so wonderful.
So, you may recall I had a moment of hope a little while back, when the federal court kicked Cobb County in the ass over their proposed evolution stickers. And then that little bit of hope was immediately crushed. Well, now humanity, or at least the Kansas branch, is grinding salt into my wounds while I am down. Evolution disclaimer… Read more →
Hope crushed
So, I was feeling a little hopeful after the recent decision regarding the evolution stickers. (And if you follow links in that earlier post, you can walk back through all my rants about this.) Well, that tiny bit of hope is crushed by the NY Times today: Evolution Takes a Back Seat in U.S. Classes In districts around the country,… Read more →
Darwin has a posse
OK, I can’t believe I’m writing about this stuff again (put “evolution” in the search box and you’ll get lots of other posts with related rants), and we’re still in the 21st century. Why do so many people just want to throw their hands up and give up on trying to understand the world… ‘Intelligent design’ taken to court Eighty… Read more →
Another small glimpse of hope
You may recall quite a lot of earlier discussion here (start here and follow links backwards for other posts) about Cobb Country, GA, and their “evolution is just a theory” sticker on textbooks. Well, the case has been settled in federal court, and with a result that gives me another small bit of hope. Here’s a bit of the judge’s… Read more →
When does the new Enlightenment start?
More on the evolution issues we’ve been following. (I.e. America sinks into the Dark Arges.) Boston.com has an article outlining all the various evolution battles going on right now. More frightening than the idea that there are still people who think science is a matter of opinion, or is irrelevant in the face of faith, is the sheer number of… Read more →
Are we still fighting about this?
Evolution textbooks row goes to court OK, seriously, this debate was a joke to civilized people in the 1920s. What the hell is it in the year 2004? And for a little extra scare think about this paragraph in light of the election results: In 1987, the supreme court ruled that creationism was a religious belief that could not be… Read more →
