Cold Climate Nuts
by ChrisNovember 21st, 2004 10:51 am
Nuts come in all sorts of exciting flavors, and yes, they can grow in northern climates. The school board of Dover Pennsylvania has just adopted a biology curriculum which teaches something called “Intelligent Design” in companion with evolution. Yes. It is what you think. Now this small community will empty its coffers, defending itself in court for years to come, which will, I’m sure, do wonders for the quality of their schools in general.
The Inquirer:
In Dover Area High School biology classes, the Creator will get equal billing with Charles Darwin.
Make that a creator.
The rural, 3,600-student school district, 20 miles south of Harrisburg, is the first in the nation to require the teaching of “intelligent design,” a theory that holds that the complexity of the natural world offers overwhelming evidence of a supernatural force at work.
Who or what that force is, no one is saying, but some people are wondering whether Dover could become the catalyst for a modern-day Scopes “monkey trial.”
“I don’t know anybody who has been quite bold enough to go this far,” Witold Walczak, legal director of the Pennsylvania American Civil Liberties Union, said last week. “We view intelligent design as the latest attempt to teach religion instead of science.”
[Update] You can read more about intellegent design here. Thanks Dan.
Meanwhile, my fine Commonwealth’s government can’t seem to find a way to take its head out of its ass and properly fund mass transit. Hey guys, I know the prospect of finding the funds is daunting and mass transit doesn’t fly real well with rural voters, but if you shut down the largest economy in your state, you may find it hard to fund much of anything.
November 21st, 2004 at 5:14 pm
Oh no! That’s a bit too close to home. I live only 45 miles SW of Harrisburg. Damn these rural people.
Check out this excellent site:
http://www.skepdic.com/intelligentdesign.html