From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Aug 23 2002 - 08:30:42 MDT
Georgia School Board Requires Balance of Evolution and Bible
Georgia's second-largest school district adopted a policy
last night that requires teachers to give a "balanced
education" about the origin of life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/23/education/23EVOL.html?todaysheadlines
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This seems to me a move in the right direction but clearly insufficient.
For true balance the students must also be forced to study, on an equal
footing, the cosmogonies of Hinduism, the Hairy Ainu, Scientology, and the
Australian Aborigines. The Georgian proposal is plain bigotry and
close-mindedness.
Damien Broderick
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