Creationist PSA on Pittsburgh-area radio just now

I just heard a PSA from the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh on regular radio (WDVE, as opposed to WORD or some other God-centric station).

The PSA started with a hasty recounting of the Scopes trial and went on to say that the issue at stake is academic freedom. Teachers, it was suggested, have the right to teach all sides of a controversial issue. No one, according to the PSA, is advocating bad science, but it's important to expose students to multiple viewpoints.

Blah blah blah.

Never did they mention Intelligent Design by name, nor did they touch on other controversial issues, such as inborn homosexuality or the folly of shoehorning actual science into conformity with religious doctrine. No, they just implied that there's something dishonest going on in schools that "restrict" academic freedom.

This is the standard creationist tactic of substituting public appeals for scientific review. They know that their mythology has no chance to survive peer scrutiny, so once again they're attempting to push it through the back door into classrooms, which is frankly the last place it belongs.

Hell, I don't care who buys airtime. It's nominally a free counry, after all. But I'm disheartened to see yet another example of the forcible intellectual bankrupting of our public education system.

This is sad and pathetic we even talking about this shit.

Our Brains are somewhat limited in terms of input...to violate that...results in info overload. Burnout...

Our schools must teach a variety of subjects including the cores.

To saddle our young brains with Creationism in public schools is TIME and Energy WASTED....This is not Progress...its Status Quoism...stagnantism, Stifling, Counter productiveness.

and nothing will ever get done.

http://rwor.org/a/v24/1151-1160/1157/creationmyths.htm

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