[via MetaFilter] You may be aware of this stickers being put into science textbooks in Cobb County, Georgia — they look like this:
Colin Purrington, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Swarthmore College has come up with his own disclaimer stickers.
I suspect that if I were a high school student in Cobb County, I’d
being doing detention for applying these stickers to my classmates’
books.
I refer you to the first verse of M.C. Hawking’s Fuck the Creationists:
Fuck the damn creationists, those bunch of dumb-ass bitches,
every time I think of them my trigger finger itches.
They want to have their bullshit, taught in public class,
Stephen J. Gould should put his foot right up their ass.
Noah and his ark, Adam and his Eve,
straight up fairy stories even children don’t believe.
I’m not saying there’s no god, that’s not for me to say,
all I’m saying is the Earth was not made in a day.
For my take on the whole thing, read my one-act play, Sacrelicious!
4 replies on “Textbook Disclaimer Stickers”
Sacrelicious! is great, man! FYI, The decal isn’t showing and it looks like a lot of your ‘ are getting decoded incorrectly.
Otherwise, I do have some serious comments:
Putting stickers in books and renaming evolution as “changes over time” is an insult to people’s intelligence – although this is Georgia we’re talking about….
Personally, I think there are a lot of solid arguments for “intelligent design”. Answers In Genesis and other organizations have put a lot of thought and research into the issue. “Young earth” propositions should not be excluded from education even though they imply a supernatural creator. Teaching that it is possible for the earth to have been created very quickly is different from requiring students to believe in some sort of god. Just because there is an unknown doesn’t mean that it is spiritual in nature. A lot of my website is devoted to the overlap of scripture and science, so you can probably get a feel for my point of view there….
Yeah, I need to get another image of the decal (a “Jesus” fish eating a “Darwin” fish) and host it locally. I also need to clean up those glitches (I hope to do it tonight).
And yeah, I hold the unpopular (at least among my friends) belief in a God, despite being a techie kind of guy and no one’s written me off for it. Call me crazy.
It looks like Georgia makes a good case for evolution with this ‘still crawling out of the swamps’ kind of decision
Personally, I think there are a lot of solid arguments for “intelligent design”.
Except that it fails the “Occam’s Razor” smell test every time.