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rmcrobertson
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"Cultural diversity." Ludicrous. Creationism began--and remains--the fundamentalist mythology invented, maintained, and promulgated by an almost-exclusively white group of Protestants in this country, who have made it very clear indeed that they intend to remove evolution from science classes, sex ed from health classes, any mention of gay people from history, and any book of which they disapprove--there's an extremely-long list--from school libraries. And oh yes--they tie forcing creationism onto science curricula directly to forcing their prayers down students' throats, and reinstituting paddling. Read their websites: that's what they explicitly say.
They're our very own homegrown version of right-wing mullahs, intellectually speaking, and you want to force their ideas down everybody's throats in the name of, "cultural diversity."
Which does have the virtue of bringing up the matter of race--useful, given the racism inherent in Creationist doctrine. Fundamentally, these folks have a little problem: the science says that the human race--all of it--originated in Africa. Oops; one understands their problem. They rest their ideas on a literalist reading of Scripture--oh good; that's exactly the kind of reading that was used to justify slavery, on the grounds that black people were descendants of Noah's son, Ham, ordained by God to serve. They insist on each state's right to...oh wait; where've we heard THAT one before? Oh yes...Lester Maddox at the Pickrick restaurant.
Tell you what. Let's put creationism in bio textbooks exactly as it was done back when I was in, oh seventh grade--you know, back when according to these folks American education worked, back when we did the Pledge every day, back when they did indeed have paddling and prayer and all the rest of the nonsense. When I was a kid, in about 1966, CREATIONISM WAS TAUGHT AS A PRE-SCIENTIFIC, SUPERSITITIOUS DOCRTRINE THAT BELONG WITH OTHER QUAINT DOCTRINES SUCH AS THE ONE ABOUT THE EARTH RESTING ON THE BACKS OF TURTLES. Then, my teacers went on to explain the differences between religious viewpoints, and scientific ones.
Anybody think that doing things exactly the way we did them back, oh, thirty or forty years ago, which the likes of Jerry Falwell define as the good old days, will satisfy these clowns?
The point is this: these guys don't want to go back to tradition. They want a radical, revolutionary change in our schools, so that they work the same ways religious schools work in Iran.
That's why this is dangerous nonsense. It isn't simply the complete ignorance of the last 500 years of scientific development. It's the agenda, pushed on behalf of a smallish group of white men who believe that their country's been overrun by...you know...them.
But support it, by all means.
They're our very own homegrown version of right-wing mullahs, intellectually speaking, and you want to force their ideas down everybody's throats in the name of, "cultural diversity."
Which does have the virtue of bringing up the matter of race--useful, given the racism inherent in Creationist doctrine. Fundamentally, these folks have a little problem: the science says that the human race--all of it--originated in Africa. Oops; one understands their problem. They rest their ideas on a literalist reading of Scripture--oh good; that's exactly the kind of reading that was used to justify slavery, on the grounds that black people were descendants of Noah's son, Ham, ordained by God to serve. They insist on each state's right to...oh wait; where've we heard THAT one before? Oh yes...Lester Maddox at the Pickrick restaurant.
Tell you what. Let's put creationism in bio textbooks exactly as it was done back when I was in, oh seventh grade--you know, back when according to these folks American education worked, back when we did the Pledge every day, back when they did indeed have paddling and prayer and all the rest of the nonsense. When I was a kid, in about 1966, CREATIONISM WAS TAUGHT AS A PRE-SCIENTIFIC, SUPERSITITIOUS DOCRTRINE THAT BELONG WITH OTHER QUAINT DOCTRINES SUCH AS THE ONE ABOUT THE EARTH RESTING ON THE BACKS OF TURTLES. Then, my teacers went on to explain the differences between religious viewpoints, and scientific ones.
Anybody think that doing things exactly the way we did them back, oh, thirty or forty years ago, which the likes of Jerry Falwell define as the good old days, will satisfy these clowns?
The point is this: these guys don't want to go back to tradition. They want a radical, revolutionary change in our schools, so that they work the same ways religious schools work in Iran.
That's why this is dangerous nonsense. It isn't simply the complete ignorance of the last 500 years of scientific development. It's the agenda, pushed on behalf of a smallish group of white men who believe that their country's been overrun by...you know...them.
But support it, by all means.
