Woot!

Has this week's daily comics been a repeat of the red (devil?)'s book deal?

I'm wondering if our paper has been censuring Doonesbury's since it's reprinting those comics leading up to his book deal, with the red-headed woman talking to him in the publisher's office? I've yet to see today's.

another home run for the Doones'...

Nails it!

This strip is a couple of years old but still relevant

Maybe God didn't create the viruses yet...

How come the bible only talks about things that people knew about at that time in history?

Maybe God was following "the prime directive" and not letting people know things that were too advanced for them to understand.

How come there isn't a chapter in the bible on surgery - we could have used a head start.

How come....

Never mind....

providing they also teach the top ten religions and mention that many millions of people on earth have other belief systems.

Edited to add:

Whatever happened to Social Studies?

Doesn't matter how much evolution they teach.

Religion is cultural and belongs in social studies.

Religion is not science.
Will never be science.
Can never be science.
Science is a method, not a belief.
Religion is a belief, not a method to figure things out. And don't give me guff about it being a guide to life. It's not that either.

What do "other belief systems" have to do with science? Science is separate and above mythology. It relies on facts, not ancient fairy tales.

This epic being the obvious source for what is thus the demonstratively corrupted, and therefore inaccurate, Biblical account of the same tale.



I have no doubt that the Great State of Louisiana will see that this true, original version is taught as well.

Oh, and then there is the Havasupai flood story - which explains how the Grand Canyon came to be, as a result of a world-wide flood - in which only a single woman, in a log canoe, managed to survive and, as she was pregnant, she became mother of all people.

And let us also teach the Chinese Hei Miao story of the great flood which destroyed all the world and downed everyone save a brother and sister. They survived in a gourd boat, and, with great misgivings, they married and had a single child - born malformed which so disgusted them that they cut it into pieces and threw the pieces on the ground. In the morning, they discovered that the dismembered bits had each turned into all the people of the earth.

And then ... well, we could be here a long time.

Given the many explanations of creation and destruction it hardly seems fair for Louisiana to only present the limited, linear thinking of scientists, and the creation myth of a single Mideastern tribe - but should "Teach the Controversy" and also present all of the other creation/destruction myths of the world: Many of which are older, and perhaps more interesting, than those of the Abrahamic tradition.



Just a thought.

good thought. Religion is the bane of humanity.

I had no idea about those stories.

this is a hoot!

so that they can ignore science and teach religion in science class.

The one where the Great Chief pulls up a tree in Skyland and his wife looks into the hole and sees a world with nothing but water below, then she falls in and is saved by flocks of geese that cushion her fall until a great turtle with mud and earth on it's back provided her a place to walk and she became Mother Earth and the back of the turtle grew and grew until it became what it is today,...North America.

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BTW: She was pregnant at the time she fell and gave birth to all the land animals including us and she magically cast seeds to create all plant life.

K & R

in the sciences.

They did a great episode of a series on Evolution on PBS about it.

What was really painful was seeing these kids who were curious about science try to explain what they were learning to their parents and be met with dogmatic bumper sticker one liners and treated like they were talking about the joys of smoking crack or something.

Rick Santorum

He also called for people to build America "collectively" in the same paragraph, Here.

he has been doing this for 40+ years always hitting contemporary politics right in the gut.

Student teaching now--graduates in Dec.
Will be certified to teach biology & general science.
This stuff is precisely why he is a science teacher! He intends to teach actual science. Thankfully here in PA no one will make him teach fables that pass for "science" at least not yet.

They don't believe these things themselves. They just need to attract people who are ignorant so they can tell them anything and they will believe it. They succeed in a lot of Southern states, and, I hear, that it is not limited to the South. Beware of them trying to take over school boards at all levels. This is how they begin and it has been very successful. It's very sad, as the children suffer.

now I understand why women go into heaven feet first.

Loves me some Trudeau!

as people who believe that eugenics has any validity whatsoever, or that "superior" and "inferior" races exist.....although, at least some of them don't go quite that far(well, some don't. 'Christian' 'Identity' cultists and other fringe psychopaths on the other hand.....)

our state is not doing well under Jindal. Shocker eh?

and hasn't the Catholic Church grudgingly recognized the merits of evolution?!?

Seems reeeeally familiar to me...

Those poor, poor kids.
Yep, rick was right. Smart people will never be on their side.