Thanks, Steve, but no thanks. I'm a big believer in Darwinism. ;-}
I firmly subscribe to the belief that people (in the aggregate) largely get what they deserve. The lack of public outcry about LAHS's three year old Religious Right science teaching policy tells me that the current crop of parents up on "The Hill" have earned the right of having fostered a new generation of educationally deprived children. Extend this philosophy a bit: The people of the United States have richly earned the rewards from having voted Bush into office for subsequent terms. Extend this philosophy a bit more: The humans of this planet have richly earned the pleasures that our daily cesspool provides, such as well-attended Fundamentalist-inspired 13 year old rape victim stonings; Abu Graib; melamine-laced baby formula; teenagers breaking into a German zoo, attacking and wounding a 75 year old blind bird; and billion dollar golden parachutes as rewards for corrupt banking CEOs. Let's see a mathematical model that rigorously captures all of these societal behavior gems, and can replicate the behavior in a simulation. In other words, true change comes from within, if you have to impose it, it is not true change. If the race survives long enough, human society might eventually evolve into a more civilized form, but I'm not sure I'd bet on it. --Doug On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Steve Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am as surprised as most of you that there was not an uprising over the > "banning of Evolution" (even) at LAHS. I can see why Doug might have > developed an acute sense of (what do we call paranoia when it is well > founded?). Do we have others with children or teachers in the LAHS system > here to report? I would expect at the very least, for the thespians to > write a scathing satire about this and perform it every semester. Doug? > Maybe you can get this started? > >
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