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The individuals talked about in the following article have to be, not unlike that lost warrior tribe they found living deep in the Amazon jungle a few years ago that nobody knew of, the very last people on Earth who just outright cannot accept the centuries studied theory that the human species evolved from lesser creatures:
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
A Missouri lawmaker has proposed what ranks among the most anti-evolution legislation in recent years, which would require schools to notify parents if "the theory of evolution by natural selection" was being taught at their child's school and give them the opportunity to opt out of the class.
The bill had its first public hearing Thursday after being introduced in late January.
State Rep. Rick Brattin (R), who sponsored the bill, told a local TV station last week that teaching only evolution in school was "indoctrination."
"Our schools basically mandate that we teach one side," he told KCTV. "It is an indoctrination because it is not objective approach."
The bill is one of several anti-evolution proposals that have already appeared in statehouses across the country; the Daily Beast counted four states (Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Virginia) where legislation had been introduced.http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/missouri-anti-evolution-law-parental-notification
The Pope, for Christ's sake!! believes in evolution!!
The Gadfly watched a video the other day of Bill Maher interviewing Bill Nye The Science Guy on his show, coming on the heels of Nye's debate against Creationist propagandist Ken Ham.
Nye was much too nice toward the flat-earther Ham but the one thing he underscored with passion was the prospect of this country, if we choose the path of the Ham people, completely losing the competition of forward looking science to nations like China and Western Europe, and as a result, becoming nothing more than a sputtering economic engine of fat, dumb consumerists - devoid of any chance at ever being the world leader in any productive economic category that matters to mankind.
And he's right -- what possible benefit does this country gain by producing an army of young people who believe men and dinosaurs roamed the world at the same time, ala Fred Flintstone, and people who disbelieve that the earth is more than 6,000 years old? What is the benefit to our nation by producing a generation of science flunkies like that?
Watch the Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate. It is a bit long, but if you have even a tiny sense of awe and wonder in your soul about the fantastic and ever evolving living world around us, you will learn some things.
Nonetheless -- shame on the Missouri legislature should they even think of passing this destructive and science hating bill. Thankfully they have a Democratic Governor, who even though he's a conservative on many issues in contrary to The Gadfly's views, he would could probably be counted on to veto a bill of this level of reckless stupidity should it ever arrive on his desk.
But the real point here is -- we always have to be on guard from these theocracy advocating lunatics who would gleefully push this country's 248 years of human progress backward to the days of . . .
----TFG
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