No Child Left Behind *

Maybe next week, they can have hearings about whether or not they should continue to teach gravity. This would be funny to me if it weren't so sad.

"Public science education is an institution," said Bill Harris, a University of Missouri-Kansas City professor of medicine and intelligent design advocate. "It appoints a teacher to be a referee among ideas.

"Nobody would tolerate a football game where the referee was obviously biased."

However, if one team was playing football, and had all the proper equipment and was playing by the rules of, you know, football, and the other team came out with tennis rackets and said they were ready to play, then demanded that a net be put up in the middle of the field, then got upset when the referee tried to tell them it was a football field and they had to play football here, and they were perfectly welcome to go play tennis on the tennis courts, and they said they wanted to play football, just with tennis rackets, then I don't think anyone would have any problem with the referee declaring the football team the winner by forfeit. Not that there's anything wrong with tennis, but you don't play it on a football field. No one is saying children can't be taught creationism, but a science classroom is not the place for it, that's what churches are for.


*Void in Kansas