Evolution Mandatory In British Schools

November 20th, 2009 Creationism Education Evolution Religious Right 6 Comments


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The Brits do this while the religious right smacks lead pipes into our kid’s ankles, intellectually.

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6 Responses to “Evolution Mandatory In British Schools”

  1. anotherbozo says:
    November 20, 2009 at 8:30 am

    “the religious right smacks lead pipes into our kid’s ankles, intellectually.”

    Thanks for the link, Oliver. Now, about that metaphor..

  2. jrfunkenstein says:
    November 20, 2009 at 10:27 am

    You can’t expect to indoctrinate the next generation of Right wing, Christian zealots to annoint the likes of Sarah Palin as their savior if you fill their gullible little heads with anything as insignificant and obviously anti-American as facts.

    I thought this was well established?

  3. jr says:
    November 20, 2009 at 11:06 am

    British kids will have white collar jobs while American kids will end up protesting outside of Planned Parenthood all day

  4. Carl Martin says:
    November 20, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    Yet just another reason to emigrate to the UK.

    • abanterer says:
      November 20, 2009 at 7:36 pm

      No, it means we have to fight the stupid twice as hard. I refuse to give up reason and science to a bunch of disingenuous fools, just because they can yell really loudly.

  5. Researcher, Chef, Cook & BottleWasher says:
    November 27, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract”. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    It’s as JrFunkenstein says.
    The Christian religious right and the “conservatives” in general are trying to make the kids easy to direct and use – basically as a servile population and willing soldiers. The “other side” is doing exactly the same thing over in the oil-rich countries. These people are still fighting the Crusades!

    We all need to teach the kids as much as possible, and to lobby to raise the budget for public education.

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