If the media aren't allowed to spin this affair into a replay of "Inherit the Wind" where all the conclusions are neatly spelled out in advance of the facts, the textbook situation in this country might stand a chance of getting aired out. Textbook publishers have turned into little more than paper mills. Anything they can get Texas and California to buy will be snapped up by everybody else, no matter how chock-full of boneheaded mistakes, myths, and disproved "facts" they are.
Not that anybody reads them these days....
Liberals are scamming us on global warming, or they were until the Bush Admin. Their current views on socialism are unknown since their last coherent spokesman passed away a half century ago. Evolution, though, is greatly misunderstood.
For practical purposes consider evolution as a set of ordered sets where the order of each set is the complexity of the elements. This has little to do with Darwin or the evolutionary trees of which there are as many as there are paleontologists. That kind of evolution is just something scientists talk about when they're sitting around having a few beers after a hard day at the conference.
Yep, and creationists are right there with the lefties, demanding "alternative views" be taught in the interest of "balance," "fairness" or "diversity," rather than standing for high and hard-nosed academic standards, like they should (and as the same individuals generally do wrt to history, mathematics, and any other subject). It does not represent "fairness" or "balance" to teach a doctrine which has failed to earn standing in professional scholarship as on a par with one that has. It represents intellectual affirmative action.
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What battle? Evolution happened, and is still happening. Spoken by a christian conservative with a brain.