In an attempt to drag politics back about 20 years and drag science back a full century, a Republican lawmaker in Arizona has filed a bill to force Creationism back into public school classrooms.
Late last week, State Sen. David Farnsworth filed SB 1025, which is extremely short and gets right to the point:
Notwithstanding any other law, a public school may provide instruction in evolution by natural selection only if the school provides concurrent instruction in intelligent design.
In other words, schools can’t teach kids about evolution unless they also teach them about Intelligent Design (which is nothing more than Creationism by another name). It’s a poison pill that says you can’t educate students about science unless you also infect their minds with Christian bullshit.
Farnsworth’s defense of the bill reveals how little he knows about any of these topics: “If we’re going to teach that man came from monkeys, I think we ought to give a choice,’‘ the Republican said.
And Farnsworth made no bones about the fact that while he is using the phrase “intelligent design,’‘ he knows what this is about.
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