Have you heard of the Texas Freedom Network? From an August press release, prompted by one of those “amusing” Republican hopefuls:
Hey, due to redistricting, the entire Texas School Board is up for re-election this year!
Let’s hope the good people of Tennessee have some advocates for non-stupidity…

Nice, I wonder what the rest of the World thinks about this, do they look at us and go “Oh S***, the most powerful nation on Earth is intentionally making itself dumber” need to ask my German friends:p
Yup. My daughter is living in Germany, and her German boyfriend’s mother was petrified that my wife and I were religious kooks. There was great relief when she discovered that we were about as religious as they are - in other words, not at all.

Have you heard of the Texas Freedom Network? From an August press release, prompted by one of those “amusing” Republican hopefuls:
Hey, due to redistricting, the entire Texas School Board is up for re-election this year!
Let’s hope the good people of Tennessee have some advocates for non-stupidity…
And of course who will be elected to the SB? Persons that quote scripture better than science. :smack:
Bridget Burke: “Let’s hope the good people of Tennessee have some advocates for non-stupidity…”
Yes, and I’m one of them.
I think that in science classes they should also discuss the fact that the laws of physics don’t always apply (consider Christ’s miracles), that Earth is only about 6000 years old, and that hurricanes, earthquakes, and AIDS are God’s punishment for our sinful ways. And in history classes they should discuss how slavery wasn’t such a bad thing and that maybe the Holocaust never happened. I’d also like to see discussions about how Obama is probably the Antichrist.

I’d also like to see discussions about how Obama is probably the Antichrist.
See? Teach the controversy. He’s probably the Antichrist.

Nice, I wonder what the rest of the World thinks about this, do they look at us and go “Oh S***, the most powerful nation on Earth is intentionally making itself dumber” need to ask my German friends:p
I don’t know about the Rest Of The World, but when I was growing up in the UK the general assumption was that the South was full of rednecks who thought evolution oughtta be illegal, gol durn it, and that the rest of the US was pretty normal.
So, pretty much how it is, except that Texas, Arizona, Kansas and Missouri are also full of crazies.

I think that in science classes they should also discuss the fact that the laws of physics don’t always apply (consider Christ’s miracles), that Earth is only about 6000 years old, and that hurricanes, earthquakes, and AIDS are God’s punishment for our sinful ways. And in history classes they should discuss how slavery wasn’t such a bad thing and that maybe the Holocaust never happened. I’d also like to see discussions about how Obama is probably the Antichrist.
You say that like it’ll shut them up, but that’s probably what they’d move on to after killing off the teaching of evolution.

I’ll admit that is (probably deliberately) ambigious, but it seems (weasel words) to allow or encourage “alternative” explanations to evolution. The language used here is devilishly close to that used by IDers. I think the bill’s crafters meant to straddle the line and not explicitly state what they really meant.
I think what they have done is use language designed to avoid the statute being unconstitutional (ie “objective” and “scientific”) but in doing so they have made it a toothless tiger for reasons I have stated above.
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I don’t know about the Rest Of The World, but when I was growing up in the UK the general assumption was that the South was full of rednecks who thought evolution oughtta be illegal, gol durn it, and that the rest of the US was pretty normal.
So, pretty much how it is, except that Texas, Arizona, Kansas and Missouri are also full of crazies.
Welcome to my life I live in a lake of blue surrounded by a giant sea bats*** crazy red, you cannot imagine how many times I have been asked “You still read books? I stopped as soon as I got out of school”:eek:
Austin?