Anyone here feel like whining about the poor oppressed religious right?
Yeah, there IS a cultural war and these ignorant religious NUTS started it- they are the ones trying to impose their fairy tales on everyone else. Telling us what is scientific 'fact' based on their millennia old bible, telling us who can be married and what they can do in their bedrooms based on their myth. They are the ones telling women what they can do with their bodies and trying to take away our individual right to decide how we wish to end our lives.
Yes- there is a cultural war and the fundamentalists are winning!
NO SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL...
TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) -- Scientists have refused to participate in state Board of Education hearings this past week on how the theory of evolution should be treated in public schools, but they haven't exactly been silent.
About a dozen scientists, most from Kansas universities, spoke each day at news conferences after evolution critics testified before a board subcommittee. They expect to continue speaking out as the hearings wrap up on Thursday.
"They're in, they do their shtick, and they're out," said Keith Miller, a Kansas State University geologist. "I'm going to be here, and I'm not going to be quiet. We'll have the rest of our lives to make our points."
The scientists' boycott was led by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Kansas Citizens for Science, which believe the hearings are rigged against the teaching of evolution.
Scientists said they don't see the need to cram their arguments into a few days of testimony, like out-of-state witnesses who were called by advocates of the "intelligent design" theory
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From: http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/05/08/kansas.evolution.ap/index.html
By Martha Raffaele
The Associated Press
Updated: 2:52 p.m. ET Nov. 12, 2004
DOVER, Pa. - When talk at the high school here turns to evolution, biology teachers have to make time for Charles Darwin as well as his detractors.
With a vote last month, the school board in rural south-central Pennsylvania community is believed to have become the first in the nation to mandate the teaching of “intelligent design,†which holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by an unspecified higher power.
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