Democracy is scary. You just can't allow or trust a bunch of slope-headed slack-jawed Christians to elect school board members to represent their views and design a school program curriculum. The State must shove Darwinism and athiesm down their throats until we eliminate this this scourge called Christianity.
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Christianity survived Copernicus and it will survive Darwin. God is not offended by our discovering how things work.
Democracy has nothing to do with it when the democratically elected morons breach people's constitutional rights. If you democratically elected a bunch of people who decided to institute Islam as the official religion of the United States, you'd be one of the first of the mouth-breathers lining up in protest.
Democracy is scary. You just can't allow or trust a bunch of slope-headed slack-jawed Christians to elect school board members to represent their views and design a school program curriculum. The State must shove Darwinism and athiesm down their throats until we eliminate this this scourge called Christianity.
Teaching semi-inteligent design as a valid alternative to evolution is just one step from teaching that the earth is flat with 4 corners like the bible says as a valid alternative to conventional geography.
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Teaching Intelligent Design or Creationism -- so long as prior to either objectively succeeding in science, and therefore including them in curricula on the basis of "intellectual affirmative action" -- will do (and even the attempt has done) far, far more damage to Christianity.
Affirmative action is usually a disaster when applied to persons (i.e. apart from very special and limited circumstances), but it's always damaging (and discrediting) to ideas which receive its "help".