Monday, February 16, 2009
Science boycotts Louisiana
Posted by Alejandro de los Rios on Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:45 PM
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You read that right. Science itself has decided to take action against Louisana governor Bobby Jindal for the passsage of the Louisiana Science Education Act which calls for creationist materials to be used in public school science books.
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As a result, "Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), a scientific society with over 2000 members, has chosen to boycott Louisiana for their annual conference because, basically, their creationist governor and legislature want to make sure kids in their state grow up without a basic scientific education."
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These issues hit pretty close to home with me because I went to an Episcopal high school (don't be fooled by the fancy Web site, just your run-of-the-mill small private school) just outside Washington D.C. in which we had to attend chapel twice a week and at least one religion course a year. I will always remember during one religion class, someone asked our reverend a question that pertained to evolution. His response: "This is a religion course, if you want to talk about science, go down the hall." Not once did this school ever confuse religion with science and it had no ill effect on the student's faith and nothing but a great effect on their education. Bobby could learn a thing or two about that.
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But Jindal is trying his best to be holier-than-thou. Perhaps if he doesn't make the presidency, he can campaign for the papacy.
sadly, he is not even in step with the papacy, the catholic church and our esteemed Capt. Benny, believe in evolution. As someone else that went to catholic school growing up; there was never any confusion that the bible is a STORY written to teach us and science is fact that has been proven. Evolution is science, the bible and its lessons should be taught in religion class and maybe in english class since it is the most popular piece of literature ever.
This has more to do with evangelism, really, than with Catholicism...not to mention the right-wing element in general. A similar measure was introduced in Oklahoma by a fellow who was a friend of the John Birch Society. Thank goodness the OK governor vetoed it.
