The charges flew at the state capitol yesterday. I.M. Smarternyu, spokesperson for the nonjudgmental and highly qualified education union called the action "treasonous." "These poisonous and dishonest braying fundametalists want to burn books, teach Genesis as the creation myth, bring back witch trials, and burn heretics at the stake. People with such clear ideological bias should never be allowed to be in contact with our students, much less have a say in how we teach them." Senator Futzmeyer's office released a statement which said the charges were "not true." The one page paper looking remarkably similar to talking points script from the right wing religous group "Make Christianity the Law of the Land and Incarcerate the Atheists." The leader of that group, Bob Finklemeyer, was recently jailed for keeping his children in chains because they could not correctly recite the entire book of Leviticus in the original Hebrew, so he was unavailable to comment on the similarity.
The subject has come to the forefront on the national scene recently, with the entire scientific community speaking in a unified voice on the issue. A few rogue pseudoscientists -most of them friends of Karl Rove with ties to Haliburton and the Iraq war - have brought up the charge that 1) the argument that science is done in a secular setting is philosophical, not "scientific" and 2) the universe looks like it might be designed. This attempt to slip religion in under the door has infuriated respectable scientists like Oxford don Richard Dawkins, who stated "these damn religious inquisitionists are going to make my head explode some day. All the really smart people believe like I do."
For more reading on the subject, go to :
For the reasonable side, go to
www.whyreligionisafable.com
www.whyintelligentdesignisjustreligion.com
www.religionisfortheweakminded.com
www.truescienceisatheistic.com
www.onlytheuneducatedareagainstus.com
Religious loons may go to senator Futzmeyer's site for links. You can find it at www.google.com