Gautam Mukunda wrote: > >> Today's biggest br newspaper has a huge story about >> the return of Creationism to USA classes. It has the >> general flavour of "look how those USAns are stupid to >> believe this nonsense". > > Now, the interesting question for me is, why does this > essentially only happen in the United States? > A good question.
> The US > is the most religious industrial nation, so I have to > ask - do Christian Third World nations even teach > about evolutionary theory? > Huh? I guess you mean "do Christian Third World nations even teach about creationism?". In my schoolyears I never heard about creationism - except as a historical thing that had been abandoned in every country even before Darwin, placed in the same bullshit bag with platygaeaism, phlogistonism and liberal capitalism O:-) > Do they have debates over whether it is taught? > Creationism? No. Evolution? Yes. > Why _just_ here? I honestly > have no idea, and would be very curious as to anyone > else's thoughts on the subject. > No idea. Maybe it's because the USA likes to single it out against the rest of the world - like refusing to use metric, using the middle-endian calendar system, playing a football that does not use the feet nor a ball, etc. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
