As The Rest of The Sane, Modernized World Passes Us By . . . . . .

The Gadfly cannot wrap his balding, dirty old fucking hippie head around the sad reality that we are still debating this shit in the 21st century:

Missouri Republicans have drafted a bill that would allow parents to pull their children from science classes that are teaching the theory of evolution. According to the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Missouri’s House Bill 1472 would effectively “eviscerate” the teaching of biology in the state.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/21/missouri-republicans-introduce-creationist-bill-that-could-eviscerate-the-teaching-of-biology/


Why stop there Republicans?  Why not expand the bill to allow parents to pull their kids from math class - because you disagree that 2+2=4, or social studies - because you believe slavery was good for the blacks, or English (just listen to any Rush Limbaugh show) ---- or any other class that you happen to find fault with the state approved curriculum in those areas?  How about Home Ec (do they still have that class -- The Gadfly shows his age)?  How about Physical Education?  Those girls in leotards are exposing way too much of their femininity you know!

Sigh . . .

America --- how many times as a culture do we have to fucking fight this totally predictable, time-consuming, and ultimately detrimental (to public education) battle?

The religious right has lost this debate over and over and over and over and over ...... and - awww - fuck it!

Doesn't anyone remember this?"





That was the 1960 Hollywood depiction of the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial of nearly 90 years ago.

That trial changed history.  If for anything because it finally forced the bible thumpers to defend their beliefs in a public venue against a science believing adversary who knew his Genesis just as well as his Periodic Table of Elements.  And in the end, it punctured a huge gaping hole into the zeppelin of biblical infallibility.

But it's not really about trying to humiliate or denigrate the believers.  It is about the future of our kids and their chances at competing against the purely science trained kids of the rest of the world.

Because can't you just imagine an international science debate where one of our kids shows up talking about early man riding dinosaurs (like Fred Flintstone) against all of the traditional science trained kids who were taught how to separate their religious beliefs from proven science?

Just sad.  Sad that we still have to fight these flat-earther numbskulls.  Sad that they seem to be winning in some areas of the country.



----TFG