MrDarwin

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30032-2002Oct15.html" target="_blank">Ohio OKs Creation in Science Class</a>

RufusAtticus

Talk about passing the buck. No telling how many ACLU suits will pop up in communities across the state.

Undercurrent

The title of the article really implies much more than was actually approved. All it is is evolution being specifically pointed to as a contravercial theory, and not also explicitly saying that the contravercy is due to the clash between science and religion, rather than competing scientific theories.

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Jimmy Higgins

But evolution isn't a theory. Evolution is a scientific theory. ID is a theory. The decision allows a teacher to ignore the libraries of evidence for evolution. It allows districts to ignore the fact that evolution hasn't been disproven by a creationist after all these years. It allows someone in a classroom to expel crap equating ID as being as legitimate as evolution from a scientific standpoint.

I think I'm going to Borders and setting fire to Jonathan Wells' books... Well perhaps I'll just move them all into the fiction section.

Pierre Bezukhov

When I see books by Remine, Wells, etc. in the science section of my local bookstores, I have to resist the urge to pick them all up and dump them in the religion section.

pz

Why resist? I sometimes reshelve them in the pseudoscience/psychic/new age section.

MrDarwin

Don't do that, you'll give pseudoscience/psychic/new age books a bad name!

The Lone Ranger

I've sometimes made a point of complaining to clerks or the manager when I find stuff like Darwin's Black Box in the Science section of the bookstore. Typically, all I get in response is a blank look.

On a related matter, is it my imagination, or are the Science sections in most of the bookstores I frequent shrinking? It seems like they're getting smaller and smaller, while the Religion ("Inspirational") and New Age sections get bigger and bigger.

-- Michael

Abacus

I know that the "Magical Studies" section is much bigger than the science section at one of my local bookstores.

Duck!

My local bookstore doesn't HAVE a science section. There's a section of philosophy/religion/new age/etc. and at the bottom there's maybe eight or ten different science books. Two of them are only there because I specifically ordered them (Blind Watchmaker and Climbing Mount Improbable by Dawkins).

This is why I use Amazon.


Duck!