Rising Hegemon
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A suburban Atlanta school district Monday decided to appeal a federal judge's ruling that it must remove from biology textbooks stickers that refer to evolution as "a theory not a fact."
The board voted 5-2 in favor of the appeal after a three-hour executive session of the Cobb County School Board.
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Cooper's ruling said that the board's endorsement of the stickers implies that it "agrees with the beliefs of Christian fundamentalists and creationists." And he wrote that labeling evolution a "theory" played on the popular definition of the word as a "hunch" and could confuse students.
"Due to the manner in which the sticker refers to evolution as a theory, the sticker also has the effect of undermining evolution education to the benefit of those Cobb County citizens who would prefer that students maintain their religious beliefs regarding the origin of life," the judge wrote.
Yeah, it's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. We can teach our kids that a few thousand years ago God thought heaven and earth were good but not good enough so he (she?) put us on the earth to muck things up. All I can say is we must be a cruel joke in the universe and somone, something, somewhere they are having one hell of a laugh at our expense.
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