Church vs State in two national newscast stories tonight
CBS Evening News: Evolution "a theory" in Georgia
A sticker inside high school biology textbooks in Cobb County, Georgia reads that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is "a theory, not a fact" that should be "critically considered."
World News Tonight (ABC): Pastor demands film at Lincoln Memorial be re-edited to remove protests of civil rights, reproductive rights and war protests.
National Parks targeted by Christian conservatives. The ABC news story is about a film shown (without complaint, according to the park manager) at the Lincoln Memorial. This comes at the same time that a book is now being sold at Grand Canyon National Park that insists "The Great Flood," not erosion, created the natural wonder has been placed for sale (under protest from the park manager).
On a personal note, seeing the Lincoln Memorial story right after the creationism/evolution story nearly brought me to tears. What is happening here? And I went to the ACLU website this evening to get more information (and to reply to an e-mail I received about how to be heard on issues like these) and the site is 100% down. Hopefully it will be up and running if you click this link.
Maybe it's paranoia but I feared the worst when I couldn't get through.
A sticker inside high school biology textbooks in Cobb County, Georgia reads that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is "a theory, not a fact" that should be "critically considered."
World News Tonight (ABC): Pastor demands film at Lincoln Memorial be re-edited to remove protests of civil rights, reproductive rights and war protests.
National Parks targeted by Christian conservatives. The ABC news story is about a film shown (without complaint, according to the park manager) at the Lincoln Memorial. This comes at the same time that a book is now being sold at Grand Canyon National Park that insists "The Great Flood," not erosion, created the natural wonder has been placed for sale (under protest from the park manager).
On a personal note, seeing the Lincoln Memorial story right after the creationism/evolution story nearly brought me to tears. What is happening here? And I went to the ACLU website this evening to get more information (and to reply to an e-mail I received about how to be heard on issues like these) and the site is 100% down. Hopefully it will be up and running if you click this link.
Maybe it's paranoia but I feared the worst when I couldn't get through.
posted by Stephanie at
4:25 PM
1 Comments:
Re: the textbook thing. Yes, well, interestingly enough the point of theories and hypotheses in science is that they can never, in fact, be proven right--just proven wrong. And a theory is something that has quite a bit of evidence behind it, not just some fly-by-night guess.
Interestingly enough, I don't see anyone fighting our teaching the "theory of gravity." By their logic, I guess we can declare gravity as "just a theory" and free ourselves from Earth with a single bound!
By the way, ALL science, especially in textbooks, should be considered critically. Nothing wrong with that. Why single out evolution?
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BlogShy, at 6:46 PM
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