Natural Selection Only a "Figure of Speech," Says State Education Board Chair

[cynatnite]

Don McElroy, a Republican dentist from Bryan, is the chair of the Texas State Board of Education. He's also a book critic: Over the weekend, an indie book publisher posted his recommendation of Robert Bowie Johnson Jr.'s new book Sowing Atheism: The National Academy Of Sciences' Sinister Scheme To Teach Our Children They're Descended From Reptiles, which you can read in its entirety http://solvinglight.com/blog/sowing-atheism-table-of-contents/">here because you know you need something to read over spring break. McElroy writes, in part:

In the current culture war over science education and the teaching of evolution, Bob Johnson's Sowing Atheism provides a unique and insightful perspective. In critiquing the National Academy of Science's (NAS) missionary evolution tract -- Science, Evolution and Creationism, 2008 -- he identifies their theft of true science by their intentional neglect of other valid scientific possibilities. Then, using NAS's own statements, he demonstrates that the great "process" of evolution -- natural selection -- is nothing more than a figure of speech. These chapters alone are worth the reading of this book.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/03/in_advance_of_next_week.php

[Towlie]

1. I don't get it. What could he possibly mean by "figure of speech"?

[cynatnite]

2. Maybe he thinks Darwin used his fingers as quotations? n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. I can't wait until evolution realizes that the species wil do better if stupid people are mute.

And incapable of writing.

[ejpoeta]

4. and can't reproduce??

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. And especially that!! Thanks for reminding me.

Didn't think of that at all.

That's even better than being mute.

[KittyWampus]

5. Idtiot. Everyone knows we didn't "descend" from reptiles. We A-scended from them

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. I cannot stand these fuckers. (nt)