AFS Cinema
Strengths and Weaknesses
RECEIVED Mon., July 28, 2008
Dear Editor,
Re: “Texas Fiction Science” [News, July 25]: Coming from California, I fully expected Texas to be in the thrall of Bible-Belters. Then I heard that it is now a crime to home-school one’s children in California – could the Texas State Board of Education be headed this way? I bring this up because fantasy biology, aka “intelligent design,” is most properly taught at home to brainwashed little morons by their Christian-jihadist parents. I’m saddened, but no longer amazed at how frightened/threatened right-wing evangelical Republicans are by simple science, whether it is evolution or climate change. People should be able to home-school their children if they so desire – the rub comes in who decides what standards must be met. In the “free market” economy so many of the above demand, it would be simple – anyone who is a dumbass doesn’t get hired. It would be the employer’s decision if being home-schooled constituted dumbass conditions. But Don McLeroy and the Texas SBOE have decided that God cannot protect Itself, and so they must do the protecting – are these the same people who gave Texas the raging success of “abstinence-only sex education”? To those who complain about evolution: natural selection is not “random” selection. Is that too complicated? Just keep saying “six billion years” over and over – more than enough time. Unless you subscribe to the 6,000-year-old Earth theory.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Theory of Evolution: Strengths: Scientific, provable, accurate. Weaknesses: Not in the Bible, pesky word “theory” in it.
Intelligent Design: Strengths: Biblical (?) I’m not sure – I haven’t seen it in there. Weaknesses: Unprovable, unscientific, unbelievable.
Re: “Texas Fiction Science” [News, July 25]: Coming from California, I fully expected Texas to be in the thrall of Bible-Belters. Then I heard that it is now a crime to home-school one’s children in California – could the Texas State Board of Education be headed this way? I bring this up because fantasy biology, aka “intelligent design,” is most properly taught at home to brainwashed little morons by their Christian-jihadist parents. I’m saddened, but no longer amazed at how frightened/threatened right-wing evangelical Republicans are by simple science, whether it is evolution or climate change. People should be able to home-school their children if they so desire – the rub comes in who decides what standards must be met. In the “free market” economy so many of the above demand, it would be simple – anyone who is a dumbass doesn’t get hired. It would be the employer’s decision if being home-schooled constituted dumbass conditions. But Don McLeroy and the Texas SBOE have decided that God cannot protect Itself, and so they must do the protecting – are these the same people who gave Texas the raging success of “abstinence-only sex education”? To those who complain about evolution: natural selection is not “random” selection. Is that too complicated? Just keep saying “six billion years” over and over – more than enough time. Unless you subscribe to the 6,000-year-old Earth theory.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Theory of Evolution: Strengths: Scientific, provable, accurate. Weaknesses: Not in the Bible, pesky word “theory” in it.
Intelligent Design: Strengths: Biblical (?) I’m not sure – I haven’t seen it in there. Weaknesses: Unprovable, unscientific, unbelievable.
Daniel Lea
Cedar Park
Cedar Park