The Texas Board of Education has just passed an amendment requiring the "weaknesses" of evolution to be taught in public school classrooms and science textbooks.
As a biologist, as a scientist, as a supporter of the separation of church and state, as a rational human being, I am appalled.
I have initiated a protest movement within the University. I do not know where it will lead, but already there is a semblance of a plan that potentially leads to action.
I don't know how it will turn out, I don't know whether it will come to anything, but I have hope.
I need hope.
Otherwise, it's a slippery slope back to the dark ages (Dinosaur bones as a test of faith? Oh come on!)
As a biologist, as a scientist, as a supporter of the separation of church and state, as a rational human being, I am appalled.
I have initiated a protest movement within the University. I do not know where it will lead, but already there is a semblance of a plan that potentially leads to action.
I don't know how it will turn out, I don't know whether it will come to anything, but I have hope.
I need hope.
Otherwise, it's a slippery slope back to the dark ages (Dinosaur bones as a test of faith? Oh come on!)
1 comment:
How full of admiration I am for you. I would like to believe that I would have done the same at your age had I been faced with that particular issue with the belief in rational thought that I now have. I could make this a very long comment. But I will refrain.
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