TEXAS CREATION

[Lionel Mandrake]

Following is an excerpt from the newsletter WHAT’S NEW
by Robert L. Park, Friday, 3 Apr 09, Washington, DC

"SOMEBODY’S GOTTA STAND UP TO EXPERTS."

So spoke Don McLeroy, the dentist who chairs The Texas Board of Education
which met this week to set new science standards. The issue that
dominated the meeting was creationism. The experts lost. The tactic was to
insert ambiguities that could be construed as calling for creationism to
be taught. Creationists will use that to lobby textbook publishers. The
publishers just want to sell books and Texas is a big market. McLeroy
says he believes the sudden appearance of fossils supports the creationist
view. What fossils? Texas used to float on a fossil ocean of oil. It has
disappeared a lot faster than it formed.

http://www.bobpark.org

[tularetom]

1. If God is so smart why did he let us have cavities?

There really should be no need for dentists. This one should just shut the fuck up.

[Hugabear]

9. Or why do humans still have tail bones?

n/t

[Lionel Mandrake]

10. Those are for breaking and hurting

when you fall on your ass. That's just another way that God can punish you.

[patrice]

2. Absolute relativism at work for church corporations guaranteeing those tithes.nt

[Lionel Mandrake]

11. Or is it relative absolutism? n/t

[FreakinDJ]

3. Too bad those kids will be denied admission to Calif. UC system

Their parents are retards but I feel bad for the kids

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Good point.

Still, if they're going to teach crap then it's appropriate for other institutions to respond accordingly.

[FreakinDJ]

6. The difference between "Credited and Non-Credited curriculum"

[Lionel Mandrake]

5. So do I

It's bad enough that the kids are brainwashed at home. It's worse to preach at them in the classroom. This violates the establishment clause of the Constitution.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. So...somebody's got to stand up to the experts?

Really.

Funny, I thought he was an expert.

Oh yeah, I got it...

An expert idiot.

Good grief.

:eyes:

[Lionel Mandrake]

8. My dear CP

I'm not sure what his area of expertise is. Maybe Texas politics. Right now he's head of the Board of Education - a job for which he is spectacularly unqualified. Now that the faith-based science standards have been perpetrated, maybe he will move on to a more exalted position, where he can do even more harm. There is ample precedent for that in the great state of Texas.