Be sure to see update here, next post. Worse, even more, here.
Don’t you just love the Texas lege?
And could you make this stuff up if you were writing a novel? Nobody would believe it.
Warren Chisum is a good ol’ boy from Pampa, Texas, and the second most powerful man in the Texas House of Representatives. So when his friend, Georgia State Rep. Ben Bridges, asked him to — well, what was it he asked? — Chisum agreed to circulate a petition that calls evolution a plot of the Pharisees, Albert Einstein and Carl Sagan members of a Kabbalistic plot, and Big Bang ancient religion.
The Associated Press report in this morning’s Dallas Morning News (free subscription required eventually):
The memo assails what it calls “the evolution monopoly in the schools.”
Mr. Bridges’ memo claims that teaching evolution amounts to indoctrinating students in an ancient Jewish sect’s beliefs.
“Indisputable evidence – long hidden but now available to everyone – demonstrates conclusively that so-called ‘secular evolution science’ is the Big Bang, 15-billion-year, alternate ‘creation scenario’ of the Pharisee Religion,” writes Mr. Bridges, a Republican from Cleveland, Ga. He has argued against teaching of evolution in Georgia schools for several years.
He then refers to a Web site, www.fixedearth.com, that contains a model bill for state Legislatures to pass to attack instruction on evolution as an unconstitutional establishment of religion.
That website is a collection of lunacies (“fixed Earth?”) about as great as is possible to put together without — lots of scienciness, little information.
I predict a textbook fight in Texas, maybe sooner than the Texas Education Agency’s schedule calls for. Fasten your seatbelts, folks — it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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This wouldn’t happen if God had the foresight to have given Moses an eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not be an infernal dumbass.
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Remember, guys, he comes from the same town that elected US Rep. Larry “Post the Ten Commandments, just don’t ask me to name them” Westmoreland.
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I’m stunned and scary is the word. Perhaps it’s time that elected representatives demonstrate they have the equivalent of a basic high school education?
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Dang, and I thought I had the craziest Christian makes up science to prove God story today.
http://elbogz.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-bad-thing-they-will-teach-children.html
I wasn’t even close to the fixed earth group. That is just plain scary. Not that someone could make up such buffoonery, but that a member of the Texas legislature would actually quote it. I wonder how long it will take to make Christian radio. 20 minutes?
I guess we know who will star in the next remake of dumb and dumber.
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