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Monday, December 12, 2005

i'm a gonna saddle up my dinosaur and mosey on outta here

this just makes me want to puke. what is WITH these people?

Warning Label on Darwin Sows Division in Suburbia
Parents in Cobb County, Ga., Clash Over Sticker in Textbooks
By Peter WhoriskeyWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, December 11, 2005; A03
MARIETTA, Ga. -- The evolution controversy in this comfortable Atlanta suburb began with one boy's fascination with dinosaurs.
"He was really into 'Jurassic Park,' " his mother recalled. The trouble was, "we kept reading over and over that 'millions and millions of years ago, dinosaurs roamed the earth,' " Marjorie Rogers continued. "And that's where I said, 'Hmm -- wait a second.' "
Like others who adhere to a literal reading of the Book of Genesis, Rogers, a lawyer, believes that Earth is several thousand years old, while most scientists, basing their estimates on the radioactive decay of rock samples, say the planet is billions of years old.
Rogers soon began a quest to challenge what she sees as educators' blind faith in evolution. It evoked a groundswell of support from other residents of this affluent suburb of high-tech office parks and shopping malls, and it pushed the county school board to put warning labels on biology textbooks saying that evolution "is a theory, not a fact."
The measure effectively made Cobb a battleground in the national debate on evolution because the textbook stickers, in turn, prompted a lawsuit in federal court from other parents who see the labels as an unwelcome intrusion of religious thought into public life.
But as both sides prepare to restate their arguments before a federal appeals court this week, many others in Cobb County are having a different reaction: Not again.
The fast-growing suburb of about 650,000 people northwest of Atlanta -- in many ways similar to Loudoun and Fairfax counties in Virginia -- has long shown a remarkable flair for high-profile social controversy...............

6 comments:

Brent said...

I'll tell you what is with these people: They are f'ing STUPID.

Unknown said...

way way WAY beyond stupid brent.

The Sanity Inspector said...

I sure wish I could go blog this circus, as I am in that area.

Unknown said...

i see you may not be able to blog this because of work. i'll keep my fingers crossed none the less (or is that all the more???)

Roxy said...

ARGH! Why is it not a requirement for people to have an IQ test BEFORE they breed?

Unknown said...

roxy, someone has to tell these people the stork does NOT really bring their children into this world