1) there is an aggressive anti-evolution, anti-science -- anti-reason campaign.
Heck you can't even teach basic anatomy in this country without getting called a heretic!
This excerpt is from an article in Time magazine, written by Nancy Gibbs. Link to the article is here:
http://www.digitaldivide.net/news/view.php?HeadlineID=220
A science teacher in Baltimore, Md., was offering lessons in anatomy when one of the boys in class declared, "There's one less rib in a man than in a woman." The teacher pulled out two skeletonsone male, the other femaleand asked the student to count the ribs in each.
"The next day," the teacher recalls, "the boy claimed he told his priest what happened and his priest said I was a heretic."
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