Heard it all now...
Georgia representative Ben Bridges doesn't like evolution, and thinks it shouldn't be taught in schools. That's hardly unusual- ignorance of this sort is suprisingly common in Southern politics, and unfortunately, there's no common sense test meted out before one runs for public office.
But Ben goes the extra mile for the lunatic fringe. We might never have heard a peep about his bizarre memo that supports the idea of a fixed earth and proposes legislation to challenge evolution as an 'establishment of religion' if it wasn't for the fact that the Texas House thought it sounded pretty interesting and actually passed it around- it seems they found the notion that the earth doesn't move perfectly plausible, along with the warning that evolution, physics, and modern astronomy are all permutations of a vast plot to indoctrinate the nation's youth with kabbalistic (read: Jewish, especially "Hollywood" Jewish) doctrine.
Carl Sagan, kabbalist. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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Well, wait a second. You do report this rather incorrectly, jumping a little too quickly at the mistake made in Texas. Do yourself a quick favor and check out some Google news of Ben Bridges - you’ll find that Chisum (R) who’s in the Texas House distributed the memo (albeit hastily) without really checking it out first. That’s really how it made the national press.
And counter-evolutionists - check out this fun piece of news in the Post today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201007.html
We did not come from monkeys. What does that say about your self image if you insist on claiming monkeys were your parents? Grow up.
I don’t know- but what does iut say about yours that that would bother you?
For the record, your ancestors and mine were apes, not monkeys- and apes we are still.
And Mike, whether Chisum “jumped” as he claims, both men are still responsible for promoting this trash.