As long as these yahboobs are on school boards in this county, the rest of the world is gonna kick our ass in science.
Evolution To Be Taught As Scientific ‘Theory’ In Florida Because Of Right-Wing Campaign
Today, Florida’s Board of Education voted 4-3 to change standards for teaching science in Florida’s public schools. The Miami Herald reports:
For the first time ever, evolution is to be taught clearly and explicitly in Florida classrooms now that the Florida Board of Education Tuesday approved a batch of new science standards that says the ”E” word.
But there’s a catch: Evolution will be taught as “the Scientific Theory of Evolution.”
Previously, Florida’s science standards referred to evolution as “biological changes over time.” The shift to evolution was widely embraced by Florida’s scientists, school teachers, and university professors.
Yet a successful lobbying campaign by a coalition of conservative groups, such as the Christian Coalition of Florida and the Florida Family Policy Council, managed to convince the board to insert the caveat. They said they were “vigorously opposed” to the evolution language because it “clashes with their religious convictions or their personal beliefs that evolution has not been proved.”
Unfortunately, however, the right’s tactics seemed to be mostly driven by ignorance. At a public hearing, one Florida Panhandle resident held up two oranges and mockingly said that “after reading all the material” on evolution, he has a “conviction” that one of the oranges “is the first cousin of somebody’s pet cat” and the other, “the parent of somebody’s pet dog.”
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These are the same religious right freakazoids that handed -W- the election in 2000.
Somethign else to remember is the origin of Neoconservativism is from the Soviet Union. The founders of the neocon movement were expats from Czarist russia and were followers of Lenin and Marx. they repackaged the soviet idealogy for the American market and allied themselves with President Woodrow Wilson. They fell out of favor quickly when the democratic party began abandoning its militarism and radical racist values and moved to progressive liberalism. At nearly the same time the Republican party moved very quickly to become the party of the wealthy and privileged during the Reagan Revolution. The Neocons saw their opportunity and jumped ship to the GOP. Their power peaked in 2000 with the election of GW Bush and their influence is declining rapidly due to their economic incompetence and failures in the war on terrorism, though they still are quite popular with many conservatives due to their pro-israeli stance. They took advantage of protestant biblical beliefs and used it to garner a lot of support by having unquestioned support for Israel and strong anti-muslim militancy, as well as fostering anti-immigrant positions and promoting a Soviet-style cold war sized military to 'protect' the USA from unspecified threats.
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