As you read this, I ask you to think about your thought processes. As technology grows we gain access to new information, and new methods for finding and comprehending those pieces of information. Spin is a tool that has been used by groups to maintain power over their subservients in every civilization.
Fundamentalists are now using spin and pseudo science to go ahead and manipulate what enters the curriculum of American schools. Creationism was banned as valid curriculum by the Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard in 1987 and yet it gets repackaged and put back on the table.
Intelligent Design is far and away the most ludicrous sham placed against evolutionary education yet. Honestly, its pure humor to me at this point. The fundamentalist rationalization for this type of science (look up irreducible complexity) is beyond hilarious until I realized how powerful it is to the developing mind.
With the onset of Expelled breaking the top 10 at the box office, I realized how in danger we are of a snowballing juggernaut that is going to corrupt the youth before they ever set foot in my classroom. What was seen as isolated child abuse in the film Jesus Camp, is soon to be a movement against my profession of teaching critical thought to American adolescents.
Without further ado, I give you one of America's leading evolutionary theorists Ken Miller. As a Roman Catholic, he believes in a creator, just not a 'deceptive' creator. He also is the one that publicly destroyed Intelligent Design's strongest debate points. If evolutionary theory is ever put in question in your school district, spread this video.
As Mr. Christopher Hitchens says "Mr. Jefferson, Build up that wall!"
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