"Evolution is hooey."

i'm beyond mad. my state of mind is beyond disbelief. the evidence is there. i even understand it. they're putting all faith in their god. a god they've not seen. a god they've not heard. a god they can't prove exists (unlike evolution). yet because some words are on paper in a book (with many conflicting passages i might add) they believe it.

if only they'd believe science

(once again, i am not disparaging anyone from believing in their gods. i understand it. i do. they're afraid to just die without anything else. they're afraid of the unknow. it's a comfort to believe in god. fine. i accept it. in addition to believing in your god, believe in truth and proof and science as well)

the world IS ROUND

Texas Education Board Is Trying to Infuse Schoolbooks with Ultraconservative Ideology
"We are a Christian nation founded on Christian principles," says one board member. "The way I evaluate history textbooks is first I see how they cover Christianity and Israel."

Don McLeroy is a balding, paunchy man with a thick broom-handle mustache who lives in a rambling two-story brick home in a suburb near Bryan, Texas. When he greeted me at the door one evening last October, he was clutching a thin paperback with the skeleton of a seahorse on its cover, a primer on natural selection penned by famed evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr. We sat down at his dining table, which was piled high with three-ring binders, and his wife, Nancy, brought us ice water in cut-crystal glasses with matching coasters..............

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