The Victims

PZ Myers:

Did you know that it is assumed that if you are a Christian and a teacher, that you oppose the teaching of evolution and want to introduce creationism into the classroom?

Did you know that people purporting to represent you will be going before state legislatures and telling your representatives that creationism is the Christian perspective?

Did you know that people are collecting stories about getting slapped down for teaching nonsense in science class, and are telling politicians that it's because they are Christian?

You know, I think Christianity is awfully foolish anyway, but I'm a goddamned atheist. You don't care what I think. But I would think the concerted and largely successful effort in our culture to equate Christianity with the idiocy of belief in a 6000 year old world or a god who meddles in trivialities or denying the facts of a natural world would piss you off. Unless it's true, that is, that you don't mind having your religious beliefs associated with flaming anti-scientific lunacy.

Maybe you should try squawking a little louder. You could start by writing to David Bracklin and letting him know that stupidity isn't supposed to be a Christian sacrament.

This silliness goes all around. Behe was trying to sell creationism recently as science in another courtroom. And failed again.

And it follows in Scotland as well. Where when Richard Dawkins goes to speak, they protest and declare that Christians are not given equal time, the religious organization that has the largest membership, the one that has been around 2 millennia, and was forced as law for ages in Europe, and...oh that's right is the state religion of Great Britain. Yeah, not equal time...sure.

Better yet, are the ones that say there is an "unbalanced debate" between evolution and creationism. Sounds right one is science, one myth. Trouble is that too many think myth should outweigh reality.

But remember it is the promoters of the myths in science class that are the victims...