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Originally posted by Quetzal:True, Darwin never said we evolved from monkeys. Neither has any other evolutionary biologist since Darwin. Curiously, the only people I've ever heard say this are those self-same scientifically illiterate fundamentalists. Wonder why?
--OWMs (old-world monkeys) (...is what the Evo indeed states) makes a monkey out of all of us, no? Might as well tell my kid he's a worthless monkey-boy, but that he didn't evolve from monkeys.
Oh Q! Why can't we keep evolution out of grade school in the same manner that it is kept out of medical school? We doctors don't use it because its not expedient for anything. Moreover, it makes us look like idiots when we talk it in front of our patients: e.g., "Mrs. Jones, the arch of your foot is collapsing because Lucy-the ape-man's foot developed a bunion." (etc.).
At a local (public) community college in NC, we the students (in order to form a more perfect class) were able to oust out the ToE from our biology classes (with instructor approval) in order to learn true and relevent biological science. Surely, we can do the same at the grade school level, via pressure by a minority of concerned parents. The paradigm has already been ousted from many of Alabama's public schools via such pressure.
Have we broken the federal law at the state level, Q? Our schools have enough competition-type problems: teaching tyranical evolutionary schemes is easily thwarted (in Alabama), by even just one or 2 concerned spokesman like myself. Why? Because, the ToE is so ridiculed by us fundies, simpletons, drunks, widows, negroes, rednecks, and sincere folk, etc., that any e-word usually becomes quickly extradited to Yankee/Babylonian domains up north.
Sorry, we just ain't got time for it, Q.
[This message has been edited by Philip, 12-31-2002]
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