Here we go again: the Intelligent Design court case opened in Pennsylvania yesterday.
Some coverage:
AiG – creationist site
CNN – mainstream news
National Center for Science Education
If you’re saying “I don’t live in Pennsylvania, or even the USA, how does this effect me?”, listen to this:
The companies that produce science textbooks want to sell them. In a lot of areas where the Intelligent Design/Evolution “controversy” exists, selling textbooks means toning down the evolutionary content. And making multiple versions of the same textbook, (with and without the quality evolutionary content) is an added expense. When a significant number of school districts start getting queasy about teaching Evolution, we (who buy English language science textbooks printed in the USA) all feel the effects.
For a discussion of how the textbook purchasing policies in Texas drove the publishing industry in the whole country in the 1980s, go here.
For fun:
Some stickers you can take to school with you.
Project Steve
Sometimes I think I should just start over, with followers that aren’t idiots.