The stupid just keeps on coming.
Columbus Dispatch | Whitehall Council still deeply divided on ‘Science Month’ (Whitehall is an eastern suburb of Columbus, OH, right next door to the Columbus Country Club)
… Councilwoman Jacquelyn Thompson originally suggested declaring Feb. 12 Darwin Day in honor of the 200th birthday of the man who conceived the theory of evolution. However, she watered it down to “Science Month” and added Galileo’s name in a compromise two weeks ago.
“The whole idea of this was to recognize the events,” she said at a council meeting yesterday. “I thought it was a great opportunity to show that we value science, we value inquiry and we encourage our students to open up to the world.”
A few council members replied with shouts of “Not my children!”
Wow. Finally, someone tells the truth, someone openly admits that curiosity and inquiry, these urges for discovery that once made this nation great, are no longer core American values. Someone want to tell me what and who we’re stimulating our economy for? How will this country prosper again and sustain such growth? By praying to the Lord for an asteroid of gold to crash into Earth? All scientists should simply go on strike. Then let’s see where you get your food, drugs, gasoline, internet and stuff from.
Nah, this country was formed by all the prudes that got kicked out of everywhere else. And the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
No, the land was settled by the prudes but the country was founded by some rather open-minded people. Even so, some of the most learned folks in science in England and here back in the 17th century were Puritans, Barkers, Mennonites, etc. What we see today is people mistaking wilful ignorance for faith.