From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Aug 23 2002 - 11:10:54 MDT
Damien writes
> 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
>
> ============
>
> 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.
True. But you left out quite a few cosmologies yourself.
Moreover, in addition to having a patently incomplete list,
you failed to say "etc." or "and so on" anywhere.
I don't want to see your name added to the list of those
who are anti-diversity. So you better watch it in the
future. We all better watch, actually.
Lee
P.S. "Cosmogonies" isn't yet in either my spoken or
written vocabularies. My education itself obviously
needed more balance, and I've reported myself to the
authorities.
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