Snipped from NewScientist.com.

Once again, the puritanical heretics, aka. the religious, are trying to remove your right to the freedom from their religion. They don’t give a two, left shits about the Constitution’s First Amendment stating the separation of church from State. As Thomas Jefferson said, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion … ” They have “experts” now infiltrating our education system to slowly and quietly convert science into nothing more than bad philosophy and create blurred lines as to where the separation of church exists.

It seems as though they are using a term called “Academic Freedom,” which is actually used for professors to publish research completed, to manipulate the academic boards into letting in creationism… err, intelligent design in through the back door. Unfortunately, good old Bobby Jindal, yea, the really unnerving Mister Rogers from India, as successfully made Louisiana the first state to allow creationism to be taught right along with evolution. Other states that are still being fought for are Missouri, Alabama and Florida and these “academic freedom bills” are still pending.

And worse yet, they have found out if they can infiltrate Texas, the largest purchaser of textbooks in the nation, and coerce our education board to allow creationism to be taught, and since they would not be able to afford to have Texas only science books, most major publishers will be forced to rewrite them for all states to allow this alternative view on how earth, man, and the universe were created. This means that if they can convert Texas over to the moronic side, then all states will eventually follow due to lack of materials to teach from.

Here is a small portion of the article:

It was a mixed bag of victory and defeat for science on Friday when the Texas Board of Education voted on their state science standards. In a move that pleased the scientific community, the board voted to not include proposed changes that would call for the teaching of the “strengths and weaknesses” of scientific theories – code words for allowing creationist views into the classroom.

However, additional amendments that were voted through provide loopholes for creationist teaching. “It’s as if they slammed the door shut with strengths and weaknesses, then ran around the house opening windows to let it in a bunch of other ways,” says Dan Quinn, who was on site at the hearings. Quinn is communications director of the Texas Freedom Network, a community watchdog organisation.

One amendment calls for students to “analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning the complexity of the cell,” phrasing that rings of intelligent design arguments.

Another amendment requires students to “analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning any data on sudden appearance and stasis and the sequential groups in the fossil record.” These issues are commonly held up by creationists as arguments against evolution, even though the scientific community disagrees.

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UPDATE: Snipped from Trinixy.Blogspot.com.

And that’s not all. In Oklahoma, it seems that there has been a bill passed that reads a student can not fail a biology class if he lists the age of the earth or the universe as 6000 years old, or that god created man in its present image. As long as a student lists his religion as the reason he didn’t study, he cannot be failed. Great. It’s getting worse, and the mainstream media will not cover it. That means that you will not be aware of all of this until it is too late.

Here is a small portion of the article:

A school district shall treat a student’s voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint, if any, on an otherwise permissible subject in the same manner the district treats a student’s voluntary expression of a secular or other viewpoint on an otherwise permissible subject and may not discriminate against the student based on a religious viewpoint expressed by the student on an otherwise permissible subject.

It’s the “otherwise permissible subject” phrase that’s sticky. That can easily be interpreted as meaning tests, besides just normal classroom discussion.

For a long time, I have been disquieted by the fact that many people want to give patently ridiculous ideas as much standing as reality. One problem with this is that once you open the door to fantasy, any and all flavors of it can walk on through, as in the example above. But it also elevates fantasy to the same level as reality, and that is simply wrong.

I taught a few classes back when I was a grad student. If someone had answered a question on a test saying the Earth was 6000 years old, I would have marked it as incorrect. That’s because - and sit down for this breaking news - that answer is wrong. The student could complain, they could take it to the dean, the president, the Supreme Court for all I care - I wouldn’t have backed down. Wrong is wrong.

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