Biology textbook “laced with Darwinism”
The Scopes Monkey Trial, version 21.C, continued today in Dover, Pennsylvania.
In honor of Creationists everywhere, I will “quote-mine” the news report:
one member of the school board dismissed the separation of church and state as a “myth,” …
Board members also urged science teachers to balance evolution with creationism or intelligent design and stalled on purchasing a textbook one member derided as “laced with Darwinism,” …
“I saw a district in which teachers were not respected for their professional expertise … and the reason science teachers were not respected was because of religious beliefs,” …
board member Alan Bonsell “expressed he did not believe in evolution and also said that if evolution was part of the biology curriculum, creationism had to be shared 50-50.” …
Bonsell told him that evolution was “against his religious views” and that Bonsell particularly was concerned about the idea of “monkeys to man.” …
Bonsell said “a lot of” the statements attributed to him were inaccurate. “They’re accusing us that this is religion and it isn’t. This is a one-minute statement, a one-minute statement. We’re not teaching kids intelligent design, we’re making kids aware of it,” …
“Two thousand years ago, someone died on a cross. Can’t someone stand up for him?” …
Those goddam biology books; they’re all “laced with Darwinism.”
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