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from: Jeff Shultz
date: 2005-08-04 19:29:54
subject: Re: Bush reveals his deep grasp of science

From: Jeff Shultz 

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:24:30 +0100, Adam wrote:

> http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e3658032-03bb-11da-b54a-00000e2511c8.html
>
>
> "President George W. Bush stirred the debate on the teaching of evolution
> in schools when he said this week that he supported the teaching of
> alternative viewpoints - such as the theory of Intelligent Design - to
> help students "understand what the debate is about"."
>
>
> Hey George...it's turtles all the way down.
>
> What debate is there with people who simply "believe"?
"Look here's a
> fossil precursor animal to this animal".....countered via "aaaaahhhh
> buuuurllieve". T'riffic debate that.

Yep - the NEA doesn't dare give the kids the idea that there might be an
answer other than what they tell them. Horrors - they might actually start
thinking for themselves!

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