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The Republicans who want ignorance to get equal time in schools | Diane Roberts

Education is the new enemy Republican. No more freedom of thought and empirical evidence, that the Bible, rumor and Fox News

Not content to simply make war on women, the Republicans are targeting another enemy of conservatism: education. New Hampshire State Republican Jerry Bergevin recently attacked science and intellectuals who call themselves atheists teachers: "I want the complete picture of the evolution and the people who came up with the ideas presented is a worldview and a atheist. ".

While New Hampshire does have just passed the anti-evolution Bergevin, Tennessee did. Its new status allows, even encourages - teachers to express skepticism, as Bill said, "scientific issues, including but not limited to, biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, and global climate ". The American Institute of Biological Sciences, National Science Teachers Association of the Earth, the National Center for Science Education in Tennessee and eight members of the National Academy of Sciences to oppose the new law, calling it of "bad education." But they have not "pagan elite doctoral Darwinites know the government of Tennessee wants you to know that is not related to a monkey.

Tennessee, you will recall, is proud of the "Monkey Trial" of 1925 in the famous John Scopes, a high school teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution science. These days the forces of anti-thought is not simply deny science, requiring that ignorance is given simultaneously. David Fowler, a former state senator and head of the action of the family of Council of Tennessee, who helped draft the bill with the help of a leading group called creationist (without perceptible irony) Discovery Institute complains that the Tennessee manuals call the Genesis account of a "myth of creation "- as opposed to revealed truth. In addition, teachers do not have a "balance" of evolution. Do not have a "balanced" view of the laws of gravity, the speed of light and the fact that the earth revolves around the sun, either.

And speaking of heliocentrism, James Inhofe of Oklahoma likes to compare with Galileo Galilei. He continued by proclaiming that "global warming is a hoax." The shape of the prosecution is not very clear: a U.S. senator is moving cash courtesy of oil and gas companies. This somehow qualifies him to say that while 97% of scientists agree on anthropogenic climate change, which "does not mean anything." His peer-reviewed journal of choice is the Bible, "Genesis 8:22:" as long as the earth remains, there will be spring and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night "My point is, even God. there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings would be able to change what the weather for me is outrageous. "


In Arizona, Republicans in the state government rewrote the basic biology, decreeing that pregnancy actually begins before conception. Instead of waiting until the Lord does the happy dance with Mrs. sperm egg, Arizona will be to define a child as "calculated from the first day of last menstrual period," meaning it could be officially preggers one or two weeks before having sex. Why you ask, Arizona legislators want to do this? Because pregnancy of 18 weeks duration could be defined as 20 weeks - and abortions are prohibited after 20 weeks. Genius.
But the state has not been limited to the adoption of simple medical stupidity, covering censorship and misinformation and history. Republicans in the state government, concerned that children "of a particular ethnic group" (meaning Latinos) have learned that the Americans stole their land, outside the law "ethnic studies" in 2011. Of course, the fact is that the Americans stole their land - Arizona was part of Mexico governed by the Alta California until the U.S. invaded expansionary in 1846. According to the 2010 census, the Latin American children now constitute the majority in public schools in Arizona, but they learn about their heritage is apparently equivalent to advocate overthrowing the government of the United States.


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