Osborne Ink ::

OMFG. Tonight is a busy night, but I have to share this: I went to my daughter’s parent-teacher conferences today and discovered that her Biology teacher is a rabid creationist.

She teaches the standard methodology of science, allows that the standard models are all based on evolution, and then undercuts the whole enterprise by “teaching the controversy” and “encouraging students to decide for themselves.” She even, in not-so-many words, declared that evolution is ‘just a theory.’

Really? What’s next: is her Health teacher going to let kids “decide for themselves” about Germ Theory? How about a Chemistry class that allows alternatives to Atomic Theory?

While she’s at it, she can just rewrite all the rest of the science textbooks that contradict creationism: Astronomy, Physiology, Physics, etcetera. Better do away with Geometry too, since that contradicts the heliocentric universe of illiterate Levantine shepherds.

Her excuse? The Alabama graduate examinations have no questions on evolutionary theory. So not only are all her teachers ‘teaching to the test,’ at least one test is designed to keep children stupid.