Saw this bit on the website Crooks and Liars about Ohio’s favorite religious right demogog J Kenneth Blackwell who has a new gig and word he may try to run for US Senate in 2010. Excuse me I just threw up in my mouth.
Category: Anti-science
Although the film, “Inherit the Wind”, uses the Monkey trial as the starting point it was never meant to be a documentary of that trial. The film was based on the stage play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee as a statement against McCarthyism – not religion vs. science. However it offers a good look at the still constant struggle of science against religious fundamentalism.
After the Dover, PA smack down, people wondered what new cover Intelligent Design supporters would use to get their religious clap trap snuck into the schools. Now we know….
If someone actually expresses that they don’t believe in Heliocentrism is kind of akin to not believing in gravity. One blog author does just that – makes a religious argument against Heliocentrism.
Special treatment of religion doesn’t just happen in government. It also happens when it comes to your health and your children.