Ohio likely to put doubts into teaching of evolution | Cincinnati Enquirer

[Ediacara]

Ohio likely to put doubts into teaching of evolution

By Jennifer Mrozowski
The Cincinnati Enquirer


Science teacher Tami Burns (standing) explains
how to conduct a solar heat-flow experiment to
freshman Andrea Ghantous during a science lab
at Reading Junior/Senior High School.
The Cincinnati Enquirer/MICHAEL SNYDER

How did life begin? Did everything start with a big bang? Did God create the universe?

Questions like these have been at the center of controversy for nearly a century and Ohio is about to re-enter the debate.

On Tuesday, the Ohio Board of Education is expected to approve model science lessons - including a 10th-grade biology lesson with a critical look at the theory of evolution.

Most board members want to let students debate evolution in science classrooms.

The vote is attracting national attention, as Ohio public schools become the center of the debate on evolution versus "intelligent design."

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[MikeG]

1. New Rule: Those who don't believe in evolution get to be janitors.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. New Rule: "Those who don't believe in evolution get no job at all."

Louzy Creationists Bums!

:eyes:

[MikeG]

6. Nah. I want them cleaning up my crud.

[Don Claybrook]

2. I Demand Equal Time!

The Flat Earth Society believes that the Earth is flat. I demand that Cincinnati schools teach both the spherical and flat models. They should also be forced to mention that the Earth may be the center of the universe. They should also teach the 4 elements: fire, air, earth, and water.

Morons.

[struggle4progress]

9. I wanna see the lab manual ...

for the science class experiments showing the existence of G*d.

[Alex146]

3. Is Ohio a fundi state?

Not excatly bible belt.

[Ediacara]

5. I don't think so

But I have a feeling their state legislative districts are drawn that way.

[SoCalDem]

8. Rightwing zealots always start with school board elections

It's their "foot in the door" and they get the added bonus of being able to decide what "all" the kids get to learn.. Isn't that special:eyes:

That's how all the creation science crap got started..

Science will be moving to Europe & Canada soon, so it probably won't matter if our kids are dumb as dirt.. There won't be any jobs for them anyway, so what does it matter if they can compete on the world stage or not..

People won't be going to Canada for their big macs :(

[mobuto]

10. In parts, yes it is

Cincinatti has more right-wing white-supremacist religious fundamentalists than just about anywhere else in the nation. Cleveland, on the other hand, elected Dennis Kucinich.

[SharonAnn]

11. SW Ohio, where Cincinnati is, has a large, vocal Fundie population

They have gone after the local school boards for several elections. i moved away in 2000 so can't tell you how it is now.

I was a Republican but my last 15 years in Ohio made me leave the GOP.
First - Reagan and Ohio wanting to eliminate all kinds of laws and regulations that prohibted discrimination against women.
Second - Reagan and Ohio wanting to eliminate all kinds of environmental protections.
Third - Bush 41 and Ohio wanting to support the Religious Right and enable them to force their beliefs on everyone.

When the Religious Right took over the Ohio Republican party, I knew that our separation had become a divorce.

Cincinnati has some particularly conservative Catholics, Latin Mass and all that, from their German Catholic heritage. Very rigid, sexist, racist, fundamentalist type Catholics. I worked with them in several jov assignments and they were kind of scary to be around.

Others, however, were much more moderate to liberal and seemed like really balanced people.

[mobuto]

12. Cincinnati was the stronghold of the German-American Bund

(Deutschamerikanische Volksbund) which in the 1930s was the American branch of the Nazi Party. Not too much has changed.

[boobooday]

7. Tell them the Easter Bunny

invented the world, with the help of the Tooth Fairy, and Santa.

Oh, and don't forget Peter Pan.

Oh yeah, and when you get sick, you can pray to God to heal you instead of going to a doctor.

When I was diagnosed with diabetes as a 14 year old, the local mayor's evangelical wife sent me a postcard telling me that if I renounced my sins God would remove my affliction. I could have listened to her, and I'd be dead now. These people are DANGEROUS the way they want to bury any knowledge or enlightenment.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[snippy]

13. My god has no problem with evolution. After all , it was her idea.

I sometimes ponder whether the Reich wing fundamentalists in the republican party are the greatest danger facing the US today. I am inclined to think that they are.