Billy Townsend, The Tampa Tribune, December 22, 2007
LAKELAND – Public floggings hurt, even when administered by satirical sacred noodles.
Ask the Polk County School Board. The panel made news last month when five of its seven members declared a personal belief in the concept of intelligent design, the religiously based explanation of the development of life believed in by many Christians.
Four of those five sympathetic board members said they would like to see intelligent design taught in Polk schools as an alternative to Darwinian evolution, at a time when new state standards mentioning evolution by name for the first time are under consideration.
Just like that, it appeared the Darwin wars had found their newest battlefield.
Yet a few weeks later, the controversy is dying with a whimper. There’s no board support for a challenge to the proposed standards. Some of the five school board members blame the local newspaper for trying to start a fight.
“Some of the five school board members blame the local newspaper for trying to start a fight.
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Of course,Its the liberal media doing its job for a change.
Exposing the grassroots conservative movement in thier attempt to stack the deck from local government right down to the local rotarian BOE
and public libraries.
Besides its all the fault of satan in a labcoat
and his infernal fossil record and radioactive carbon-14 dating,Get Thee behind Me!
Comment by Rainlander — December 28, 2007 @ 7:14 pm