So take a look at this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/education/26evolution.html?oref=login
2nd: I hope this is Scopes II but I gotta doubt it. Just the fact that someone can hold an opinion this retarded as this and not be aware of their own tangential relationship with reality is a scary place to start from.
Damn, America - We need to start testing people before they're allowed to participate in society. This person's vote carries the same weight as yours. The system is surely broken!
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/education/26evolution.html?oref=login
1st thing: This woman Hied infuriates me with her ignorant stupidity. I choose that phrase carefully. She represents the dictionary definition of both ignorance and stupidity.A Web of Faith, Law and Science in Evolution Suit
DOVER, Pa., Sept. 23 - Sheree Hied, a mother of five who believes that God created the earth and its creatures, was grateful when her school board here voted last year to require high school biology classes to hear about "alternatives" to evolution, including the theory known as intelligent design.
But 11 other parents in Dover were outraged enough to sue the school board and the district, contending that intelligent design - the idea that living organisms are so inexplicably complex, the best explanation is that a higher being designed them - is a Trojan horse for religion in the public schools.
With the new political empowerment of religious conservatives, challenges to evolution are popping up with greater frequency in schools, courts and legislatures. But the Dover case, which begins Monday in Federal District Court in Harrisburg, is the first direct challenge to a school district that has tried to mandate the teaching of intelligent design.
What happens here could influence communities across the country that are considering whether to teach intelligent design in the public schools, and the case, regardless of the verdict, could end up before the Supreme Court.
Dover, a rural, mostly blue-collar community of 22,000 that is 20 miles south of Harrisburg, had school board members willing to go to the mat over issue. But people here are well aware that they are only the excuse for a much larger showdown in the culture wars.
"It was just our school board making one small decision," Mrs. Hied said, "but it was just received with such an uproar."
For Mrs. Hied, a meter reader, and her husband, Michael, an office manager for a local bus and transport company, the Dover school board's argument - that teaching intelligent design is a free-speech issue - has a strong appeal.
"I think we as Americans, regardless of our beliefs, should be able to freely access information, because people fought and died for our freedoms," Mrs. Hied said over a family dinner last week at their home, where the front door is decorated with a small bell and a plaque proclaiming, "Let Freedom Ring."
But in a split-level house on the other side of Main Street, at a desk flanked by his university diplomas, Steven Stough was on the Internet late the other night, keeping track of every legal maneuver in the case. Mr. Stough, who teaches life science to seventh graders in a nearby district, is one of the 11 parents suing the Dover district. For him the notion of teaching "alternatives" to evolution is a hoax.
"You can dress up intelligent design and make it look like science, but it just doesn't pass muster," said Mr. Stough, a Republican whose idea of a fun family vacation is visiting fossil beds and natural history museums. "In science class, you don't say to the students, 'Is there gravity, or do you think we have rubber bands on our feet?' "
Evolution finds that life evolved over billions of years through the processes of mutation and natural selection, without the need for supernatural interventions. It is the foundation of biological science, with no credible challenges within the scientific community. Without it, the plaintiffs say, students could never make sense of topics as varied as AIDS and extinction.
Advocates on both sides of the issue have lined up behind the case, often calling it Scopes II, in reference to the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial that was the last century's great face-off over evolution.
On the evolutionists' side is a legal team put together by the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. These groups want to put intelligent design itself on trial and discredit it so thoroughly that no other school board would dare authorize teaching it.
Witold J. Walczak, legal director of the A.C.L.U. of Pennsylvania, said the plaintiffs would call six experts in history, theology, philosophy of science and science to show that no matter the perspective, "intelligent design is not science because it does not meet the ground rules of science, is not based on natural explanations, is not testable."
Damn! The moment she made that statement, any normal person should have slapped her and tossed her out on the street. I've heard some retarded **** but that really takes the biscuit. ****, how can anyone just stand there and listen to her say that, and just be like 'Uh huh, OK.'? The reporter in this case is as responsible as the next jerk who at some point in the last year hasn't put this dumb bitch straight."It was just our school board making one small decision," Mrs. Hied said, "but it was just received with such an uproar."
2nd: I hope this is Scopes II but I gotta doubt it. Just the fact that someone can hold an opinion this retarded as this and not be aware of their own tangential relationship with reality is a scary place to start from.
Damn, America - We need to start testing people before they're allowed to participate in society. This person's vote carries the same weight as yours. The system is surely broken!