For decades I’ve quietly snickered to myself at organized religion and how everyone lines up to kill each other over it. Lately there is a hard right-wing conservative push to get religion back into school in America. Specifically the Religious Right wants Intelligent Design (Creationism) taught as an alternative to Evolution. Under normal circumstances such an effort would die in the wings where it belongs but because they have a President “chosen by God” who is carrying out jihadImeanGod’swill various state governments are actually doing it. I’d wonder why they haven’t taken to heart the lesson learned in Animal Farm but such wisdom requires literacy, something America ranks 49th in, globally. The New York Times reports a fifth of Americans believe the Sun orbits the Earth. If they intend to continue this exceptional standard of education… well, may the Flying Spaghetti Monster help us all.
[…] A short while ago we all had a good laugh over the flying spaghetti monster and the idea of creationism being presented alongside evolution as valid scientific theory in public schools in the US. I think most of us thought things would settle down and get back to normal, everyone more or less coming to their senses. We were a little concerned when it wasn’t just Kansas anymore, but an actual movement in the new righter-than-right America. The NYTimes published an attempt to keep up with the ugly bubble and Google just about throws up when you inquire. […]
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That graph cracked me up, going to prove: There are lies, Damned lies, and Statistics…