Indiana Slouches Toward Idiocy

As was mentioned in an earlier post, the Indiana state senate was scheduled to vote on allowing school districts to require "creationism", aka religious drivel, to be taught in public schools.

They did, and it pasted with 28 out of 50 votes.

Sigh.

I am angry about this but we all know how this will play out.

If it becomes a law, it will be challenged in court, and even if it goes all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court, it will be overturned, but not until enormous amounts of cash are spent defending this rediculous and very harmful law.

The Europeans, Chinese and Indians are breathing down America's collective necks in terms of science education. This type of insanity does not help the situation.

Remember this with the 21at century's "Apple" or Facebook" is invented in Bangalore.

On January 31, 2012, the Indiana Senate voted 28-22 in favor of Senate Bill 89. As originally submitted, SB 89 provided, “The governing body of a school corporation may require the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life, including creation science, within the school corporation.” On January 30, 2012, however, it was amended in the Senate to provide instead, “The governing body of a school corporation may offer instruction on various theories of the origin of life. The curriculum for the course must include theories from multiple religions, which may include, but is not limited to, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Scientology.”

Full Article: http://ncse.com/news/2012/01/indiana-creationism-bill-passes-senate-007182