<p>What do you mean “egads!”? That’s the way we do it.</p>
<p>History texts are written by teams and subjected to thorough analysis to make sure they are politically correct</p>
<p>Durn right!
afterall we can’t let children leave school without learning the importance of Marilyn Monroe to our country
<a href=“http://www.washingtontimes.com/specialreport/20040328-125027-5592r.htm[/url]”>http://www.washingtontimes.com/specialreport/20040328-125027-5592r.htm</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051111/ap_on_re_us/robertson_evolution[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051111/ap_on_re_us/robertson_evolution</a></p>
<p>Robertson and Dobson…just the vanguard of the American ayahtollahs.</p>
<p>Regarding the OP, Dover in 2005, Kansas in 2006. With any luck, we’ll get to the point where these wingnuts won’t see any power higher than dogcatcher until after the generation of my daughter’s grandchildren.</p>
<p>Why some folks think it wouldn’t be possible for a so-called intelligent designer to program chaos and randomness, no less Darwinian evolution, if she chose, is beyond me. Intelligent high school students do it all the time.</p>
<p>The so-called “theory” of intelligent design (so-called because there can’t be a theory without a falsifiable hypothesis, and I have yet to find a Bible thumper who is willing to posit one) rests on the presumption that things seem to make too much sense for there not to have been a designer. I don’t think they’ve looked at humans having sex recently. ;)</p>
<p>I consider myself a conservative but I will say that teaching ID in school has to be stopped in its tracks. It is a fraud to give it equal standing as a body of knowledge in science.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hnn.us/articles/18197.html[/url]”>http://www.hnn.us/articles/18197.html</a>
“There is one serious problem with the specious idea of teaching intelligent design in science classes as a concomitant scientific theory to evolution: no credible member of the scientific or academic communities has ever proven that intelligent design is anything more than a faith-based philosophy masquerading as science, grounded on the Genesis account of the creation of life. Despite the fact that they have tried, in pressing the intelligent design theory, to distance themselves from their faith, supporters have still not been able to convince the courts that I.D. can stand on its own as a body of knowledge appropriate for science classes.”</p>
<p>Other resources:
<a href=“http://www.csicop.org/intelligentdesignwatch/[/url]”>http://www.csicop.org/intelligentdesignwatch/</a></p>
<p>I assume most here have heard of FSMism, which was proposed as another explanation of life that should be given equal time in science classrooms in Kansas if ID was also to be considered. But if you haven’t heard of it:</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster</a></p>
<p>Bring back the Greek gods, don’t they deserve equal time?</p>
<p>2dsDad, exactly. I was thinking about this yesterday. Fronting I.D. as “science” shows just how bad a job we’ve done of teaching science over the past forty years. </p>
<p>JasMom, here in SoCal it would be the Aztec gods. Equal time, aligned with dominant cultural influences dontcha know. Proponents of religion in the public schools always seem to assume that it means their particular flavor of religion and their flavor only. Shucks, I’d love to see the face of the Kansans if the religious intrusion into their schools were based on Lubavitcher doctrines. Heh. Yeah, I shouldn’t laugh at my own joke but I consider it funny.</p>
<p>I feel like “moderates” don’t have a home in any political party anymore. I call myself a “moderate Republican” and people look at me like there’s no such thing. Maybe there’s not.</p>
<p>Oh, don’t worry. The Republican fundies are going to nominate for President a pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-gun control adulterer who carried on a very steamy (and well-publicized) affair in his own home - the Mayor’s mansion - while his wife and child still lived there.</p>
<p>So much for traditional values.</p>
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<p>sounds like a man for his time…unless of course his wife is nominated;)</p>
<p>Living well is the best revenge as they say, Mini…I was so glad to see Rudy’s ex happily re-married to her highschool sweetheart.</p>
<p>Happily ever after - a golden marriage, and a pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-gun control, pro-evolution, adulterous Republican President with no hair! What more could one wish for! ;)</p>
<p>Mini, you are so bad!!</p>
<p>There IS justice in this world. ;)</p>