U.S. Continues its Slide into the Dark Ages

Evolution going on trial in Kansas

TOPEKA, Kan - Evolution is going on trial in Kansas.

Eighty years after a famed courtroom battle in Tennessee pitted religious beliefs about the origins of life against the theories of British scientist Charles Darwin, Kansas is holding its own hearings on what school children should be taught about how life on Earth began.

The Kansas Board of Education has scheduled six days of courtroom-style hearings to begin Thursday in the capitol Topeka. More than two dozen witnesses will give testimony and be subject to cross-examination, with the majority expected to argue against teaching evolution.

Many prominent U.S. scientific groups have denounced the debate as founded on fallacy and have promised to boycott the hearings, which opponents say are part of a larger nationwide effort by religious interests to gain control over government.

Once again the attack on Science in Science class rears its head.

I've got an idea! Let's insert religious ideas into all areas of school! We'll talk about how being gay might be a sin in health class! And how some people believe the Sun goes around the earth in Physics class! And how the moon landings are sincerely believed to have been staged in history class! Why stop at Genesis? We can talk about the WHOLE bible!!!!

Oh wait, they have Sunday school for that. Idiots.

(Hat Tip Pesky Apostrophe)