Aaannnnnndddd... the US moves in the opposite/wrong direction. Of course.
Why don't we just teach kids that their imaginary friends in kindergarten are real and stick with that, then go ahead and ship all of our tech/science jobs overseas now, get it over with ? Same thing.
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Urgent!
Tell Your Senator Now to Promote Real Science in Schools
Stop an Unconstitutional Creationism Earmark
Our representatives in Congress hold the power to determine how our tax dollars are spent. But what happens when a Senator attempts to fund a project that is unconstitutional?
An earmark was recently added to the Senate Fiscal Year 2008 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill's Committee Report that would put $100,000 of federal funding directly in the hands of the Louisiana Family Forum, an organization that has a history of aggressively sponsoring the teaching of creationism and other theories that debate evolution in schools. The funding is for a project that would allow this group to "to develop a plan to promote better science education," but this group would surely use these funds to undermine the teaching of real science.
In truth, there is no controversy in the scientific community over the theory of evolution. Thus, attempting to debunk it or single it out for criticism using taxpayer money can serve no valid secular teaching purpose. Every major scientific organization and the overwhelming majority of scientists agree that evolution is the best and only scientific explanation for the diversity of species.
The courts have been consistent in finding that governmental efforts to hinder the teaching of evolution or to promote the teaching of alternate "theories" violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The religious tone of creationism and its proponents, including Louisiana Family Forum, makes such groups completely inappropriate recipients of federal funding for science education.
Now, we need to stop the funding on this dangerous provision. With your help, we can ask that this earmark be extracted from the Senate Appropriations bill. Please call the Senate Appropriations Committee to ask for the removal of this earmark by using the numbers below:
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Majority staff: 202-224-9145
Minority staff: 202-224-7230
If you'd rather send an e-mail, click below to contact key members of the Senate Appropriations Committee who are managing this bill. Your e-mail will ask these Senators to take the lead in striking this earmark from the final version of the report.
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http://www.firstfreedomfirst.org/
What I sent to both the national and state level.
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Creationism is not science... it is a violation of the barrier between church and state, it is not teaching them what the class intends and it is child abuse, as it retards the possibilities for their future in the science fields and in critical thinking. We need to follow the EU and ban the teaching of creationism in science classes, show the world we are not idiotic, backward and superstitious morons who know the difference between real science and our imaginary friends. Or we can just go ahead and ship all of our tech and science jobs overseas... if that is what you want?
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