Missouri's ID and Anti-Science Bill

What a crock.The religious zealots just keep trying, don't they?They think they can get away with legislating their beliefs using the power of the state.Sorry guys--the Enlightenment means we don't have to kowtow to your religious beliefs or anyone else's.(Except maybe the Muslims--they'll cut your head off if you don't watch out!)

If you read the text of that bill, it is not designed to improve science education.The only conclusion one can reach is that it is designed to further the teaching of a specific religious belief at the expense of science education.What the author believes in, based on the bill he has sponsored, is clearly not the scientific method.What a joke!

I've taken a comparative religion class (as Anthropology).There is no place in such such a class for advocating one particular religious belief over all others. That is apologetics, and totally inappropriate in that setting.Folks want to push their beliefs, let them push them where they are welcome and/or appropriate and stop trying for force them on the rest of us.

Virginia Creationism: Dickie Bell’s Bill, by the Sensuous Curmudgeon

The proud state of Virgina, home of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and numerous other Founders, which in 1786 passed The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, has the honor of leading the nation again in Dark Ages legislative activity.

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