03-29-2009, 06:27 PM
lafinfil wrote:
[quote=Lux Interior]
Don't be so sure about this "It'll never happen here" stuff.
There seems to be a pattern in these cases. Creationists have an agenda to get creationism taught as scientific fact. This is very important to them. The rational people who realize this is BS aren't typically the people who want to serve on these boards and the creationists slowly replace them. Then, after they reach critical mass, they vote in the BS. People become outraged, vote them off the boards and overturn the BS.
Repeat process.
That's pretty much the scenario here - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/
Thanks for the link. I watched the whole thing. Great explanation of how a scientific theory carries so much more weight than the word "theory" implies.