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Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Florida Committee Passes ID Bill

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The Buzz: Florida Politics | tampabay.com - St. Petersburg Times

A St. Petersburg Times poll found 50 percent of registered voters want only faith-based ideas in the curriculum.

Only 22 percent want public schools to teach an evolution-only curriculum, while 50 percent want only faith-based theories such as creationism or intelligent design, according to a new St. Petersburg Times survey.

Possible reprisals from Florida’s many hick parents are to blame, to paraphrase. I’m shocked, personally.

State: The evolution of a sensitive lesson

“I am one of the teachers who is willing to talk about evolution in the classroom. But I’ve been advised by other teachers, ‘Don’t touch that subject.’ They say, ‘I’m afraid the parents will be angry. I’m afraid of the feedback I’ll get.’” Michael Simmons, a biology teacher at Osceola High School in Largo.

verywide.net » Evolving, A Mind

It is, frankly, horrifically despicable to inflict upon a child the notion of damnation, to fill his or her head with images of an all-powerful “God” condemning unbelievers and failed persons to eternal torment. When you consider that one of the people threatened with this endless wailing and gnashing of teeth is one of the child’s parents…. Well, it’s sickening. How could that not be damaging to a child’s developing mind? What a din of cognitive dissonance! How could that not create an unbearable helplessness and thus necessitate a split from the parent ostracized by “God”? How could that not succeed at being isolating in terms of the child’s sense of place in the greater world? A scarring shame should be visited upon any adult so selfishly motivated (by delusion or stratagem) as to poison the healthy development of a mind. And yet it is that a great many people around this country would consider me to be in the wrong.

Atheists to celebrate scientific inquiry, civil liberties at annual Darwin Day
They don’t believe in God, something they share with 18 percent of Americans.

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Uncertain Principles: Evolution of the Best

I’m sitting at the computer, reading blogs, when the dog comes up to me. “Hey, can I ask a question?” she says.”Sure, go ahead.”

“What’s the deal with evolution?”

Darwin Day Celebration
Darwin Day is an international celebration of science and humanity held on or around February 12, the day that Charles Darwin was born on in 1809. Specifically, it celebrates the discoveries and life of Charles Darwin — the man who first described biological evolution via natural selection with scientific rigor. More generally, Darwin Day expresses gratitude for the enormous benefits that scientific knowledge, acquired through human curiosity and ingenuity, has contributed to the advancement of humanity.

Three GOP presidential candidates don’t believe in evolution - On Politics - USATODAY.com
“I believe in evolution,” McCain said.

And perhaps this is why his tribe hates him so. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed goitered man is viewed, metaphorically speaking, with deep suspicion.

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