"It's you and me against the world, and we're gonna get creamed"

[thewayne]

"It's an absolute infringement on people's beliefs. What's being taught is just as much faith and, you know, just as much pulled out of the air as, say, any religion."
—Missouri state Sen. Rick Brattin, whose bill would allow parents to have their kids opt out of any class where evolution is being taught

Here's the problem, sunshine: the weight of the WORLD is against you. The Roman Catholic Church says that anything in the bible is allegory and myth, not factual. So what's going to happen is that as your state gets more and more anti-evolution, you're going to see more hi-tech and science industries pull out of your state, and your state is going to get more poor.

If you personally want to take the existence of god on faith, go for it. But if you deny the last century of scientific and medical advancement, AND encourage that denial throughout the state, then you're going to be poorer for it.

I won't bother commenting on his discrediting his own faith in the statement, it is amusing though.

Comments

[moiraj.livejournal.com]

Does this mean he doesn't want intelligent design or whatever taught either? Since it's just pulled out of the air and all. They're just not give any explanation for where the world and people came from?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Thinking is hard, just believe what we tell you and everything will be fine.

[silveradept]

...it's just weird. Shouldn't religion be sticking to the things that cannot yet be explained, instead of insisting the explanation is wrong?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

That's what a lot of people say: leave religion to faith and the afterlife, leave science to everything else. But that's not good enough for some people.

[moiraj.livejournal.com]

I've been following this. A commenter brought up a good point. How are the exams going to work for these classes? Do the students who opt out accept that they're going to get lower grades? Or is the teacher expected to create two exams?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Excellent point, and I have absolutely no idea. And I would expect that he hasn't thought it through either, that's for smaller minds to decide. Though it might be a challenge to find a mind smaller than his. ;-)