So much in life is unpredictable. It is oddly comforting and miraculous to know that we can, in this country, still generate an enormous amount of heat with so little light being shed.
Missouri, Indiana, and New Hampshire are the latest places to have played footsie with bills getting Creationism jammed into public schools for instruction and review, on the same footing as Evolutionary sciences do, as just one more menu choice for the kids.
This stuff's all muddled and mucked up in the UK, too -- but, microscopic signs of hope there. A poll showed a thin majority of Christians surveyed in Britain opposing the teaching of Creationism in the science classroom: 38% agreed it should not be taught, 31% disagreed.
Incredibly, tying the stats at 31% were those who could not locate their own opinions: 24% were undecided, 5% didn't know, 2% would not say. This latter, second-largest group may also be unable to locate items of personal anatomy in a bona fide emergency, but that is pure speculative humor on our part.
Still, this stuff keeps coming up, endlessly so: Push down two idiotic bills about religion being mandatory in public, secular schools, just in time to see three or four more pop up elsewhere. It's the religious version of Whac-a-Mole, with wispy public opinion the occasional mallet and irrepressible superstition the pop-up-again version of moles.
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