Kansas Board Approves Challenges to Evolution
This is a sad day, not just for Kansas kids, but for Kansas. We’re becoming a laughingstock not only of the nation but of the world.
- Janet Waugh
With a resounding victory for Proposition 2 under their collective belt, which according to Adam leaves Texas with a new state slogan:
I’ve been wondering how long it will be until the Evangelical nutjobs find their next nut to crack. Well, thanks to Tom at Funny Farm Online, these troglodytes might want to take a cue from Kansas, whose Board of Education has just voted to make challenging Darwin’s Theory of Evolution part of the state’s mandated science curriculum.
This sounds like something that Texas’ Evangelical Social Conservatives can get behind. Who needs science when you have the power of Scripture? Besides, if Kansas can do it, who’s to say that Texas can’t do it even bigger and better? How long until the Texas Board of Education eliminates the teaching of evolution altogether? Think it can’t happen? Just watch…
Tom’s got some ideas of how people can react in ways that will demonstrate their displeasure with Kansas’ decision:
We wonder how the state, county, and city governments of Kansas would react if:
People started looking for real estate in Kansas, spent a considerable amount of the time and resources of local realtors in finding just the right place for their family to move into, and then, just before consummating the deal, backed out because they didn’t want their kids to be taught religious insanity in science class?
Businesses (especially those doing scientific research and development) started talking to those government bodies about relocating their businesses to Kansas, but, once again, decided to back out at the last minute because the environment is not conducive to the pursuit of science?
Businesses that are currently located in Kansas decided to relocate out of the state due to the prejudice against science in the state?
People currently living in Kansas decided to move out of state due to the prevalence of religious insanity as scientific theory within the state?
Universities refused to accept students from Kansas high schools who applied to pursue a degree in any scientific discipline?
Perhaps at some point, the trolls who voted to dilute Kansas’ science curriculum will take a clue. More likely they won’t care. Here’s what I’m wondering, though: how long before we see the same sort of campaign in Texas?
