Friday, September 13, 2002, 11:41:05 AM, a knob was tweaked and out came: RT> Is is true that in some US high schools you're not allowed to teach the RT> widely-accepted scientific fact of evolution 'cos it might upset the bible RT> bashers, who have no objection to having their kids taught to hate and RT> discriminate?
Evolution is taught almost uniformly in all public schools. The few exceptions are in the southern "bible belt" of America. Unfortunately, "creation science" /is/ pretty much uniquely American, and its perpetrators quite vocal. That said, I live in a very religious state (Utah), and the kids here are definitely not taught creationism in public schools. Even Brigham Young University, a major religious academy, offers majors in microbiology and the like. You need to realize that the US is not morally congruous. Each state has its own character. I'm presently in a region where pornography is illegal, and you're not allowed to purchase alcahol or dance in public on a sunday, but I can hop on a plane to Reno, Nevada and in an hour have access to legalized gambling and prostitution, and if the November elections go the way I'm thinking they will, it will be legal to posses small amounts of recreational marijuana there within a year. Painting a whole populous with a single brush is a bit discriminatory in itself, yeah? ------------- Brian "balistic" Prince http://www.bprince.com - art and techno Strokes of Defiance EP . . . soon. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
