"This country wasn't founded on Muslim beliefs or evolution..." Wow. When the country was founded, black people were kept as slaves. Are we supposed to go back to that, as well? What do Muslims have to do with teaching science? Very disturbing.

Ironic, considering that the Muslim fundamentalists have bastardized their original religion in much the same way Christian fundamentalists have bastardized their own. God said to kill these people. Or these other people. Don't people who hear voices telling them to kill people usually get locked up? Maybe they all need to go back and READ THE FREAKIN' BOOK.

Sung to the tune of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas":

We wish there weren't scary christians We wish there weren't scary christians We wish there weren't scary christians Anywhere around here.

Who was it who said "We are moving backwards at such a dizzying rate, it seems like forward progress"...?

Ironically, the reason people keep asking for creationism to be taught in schools is that the schools themselves don't do a good enough job educating people. If you read the monkey trial link, you will see the reasoning given by creationism advocate in Dover.

But Bill Buckingham, a new board member who'd recently become chair of the curriculum committee, had an objection. "Biology," he said, was "laced with Darwinism." He wanted a book that balanced theories of evolution with Christian creationism, and he was willing to turn his town into a cultural battlefield to get it.

"This country wasn't founded on Muslim beliefs or evolution," Buckingham, a stocky, gray-haired man who wears a red, white and blue crucifix pin on his lapel, said at the meeting. "This country was founded on Christianity, and our students should be taught as such."

Okay we can see this man neither understands biology or history. Of course biology is "laced" with evolution. Evolution is the central theory of biology. It is "laced" with evolution just like physics is "laced" with the theory of relativity and Newton's laws of gravitation. Ironically, it is this man's failed science education that allows him to think the way he does. I was shocked to find University Graduate students from the Environmental Studies and Philosophy departments that still hold the misconception that evolution is teleological. There are some severe problems with the way we teach science in this country.

His failed history education also is to blame. This country was NOT founded on Christianity. It was founded on Enlightenment ideals as well as ideas the trace back to the ancient Roman Republic.

We need a massive campaign to educate the public about its own history and the nature of science. I am sick of hearing these religious cretins spew the same vomitous falsehoods over and over.

Chris,

I agree, but they have realized if you keep saying the same thing over and over again, you make it true or appear to be true. That is how they seem to get their agenda advanced...just a thought. Our president is good at that whole keep saying it over and over again thing...look at Iraq.

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I agree Ricky. Repetition in the press has been a successful tactic for Bush and his acolytes. Perhaps we could use the same tactic in the service of the truth.

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HAHA, exactly.

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