CNN reports that the state superintendent of schools for Georgia, Kathy Cox, has recommended that the word “evolution” be removed from the state curriculum and replaced with the phrase “biological changes over time.” On the plus side, Ms. Cox has said that the concept of evolution would still be taught, that teachers would be allowed to use the word, and that the state would not be required to buy new textbooks. So what’s the problem, you ask? Simply this.
There is no reason whatsoever to cave even one millimeter to the knuckle-dragging, Bible-beating troglodytes who want to impose their Mesopotamian mythology on the vulnerable minds of their children. Moreover, it’s a useless proposal–it’s not enough to please the creationists, who are upset that the idea will still be allowed in the classroom.
To the fundies reading this:
A cosmology that worked for Bronze age nomads has no utility in the 21st century. Adam and Eve are figures from Middle Eastern folktales, not real people. God didn’t make people out of dirt 6,000 years ago, there was no universal flood and no ark, and the “kind” is not a taxonomical classification. You can ignore the wealth of evidence we have on the real origins of humanity and persist in your pitiful embrace of motheaten religious fiction, but kindly keep your assheaded ignorance away from children.
And that big building with all the scary books? It’s called a library (ly-BRAR-ee)–go get yourselves cards and let the sunlight of knowledge burn away the fog of unknowing.