December 17, 2004

July 25th, 1925..seems like just yesterday

You've probably heard that about the ACLU's suit against a Georgia school board that required "warning" stickers on science textbooks. The stickers read: "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered."

Here are some more sticker suggestions:

This textbook states that the earth is over 4 billion years old. Because some people strongly believef that earth cannot be this old, this material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered.

This book promotes the theory of plate tectonics, the gradual movement of the major land masses. Because nobody oserved this process, this material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered.

This textbook claims that evolution is not fully accepted by scientsist because it is just a theory. The author hopes to confuse you into equating "scientific theory" with "cockamamie theory."

This book mentions Creationism, new Creationism, Scientific Creationism, and Intelligent Design. All of these beliefs rely on the action of a supernational entity to explain life on earth. Scientists rejected supernatural explanations for life in the 1800s, and still do today.

This book discusses gods. The existence of entitites with supernatual power is controverisal, and many believe that myths, especially other people's myths, are fictional. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered.

This book was anonymously donated to your school library to secretly promote religious alternatives to the theory of evoluation. When you are finished with it, please refile the book in the fiction section.

This book discusses heliocentrism, the theory that the Earth orbits around a centrally located Sun. Because astronomers and other still disagree over the details of the heliocentric model, this material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered.

1 Comments:

Blogger Undersecretary to the Deputy Commissariat said...

Warning: the authors of this book are from the reality-based community.

December 17, 2004 at 9:06 PM  

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