Well bad luck has struck Louisiana again as a repeal of the Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:285.1 failed. These statutes imposed the inappropriately named Louisiana Science Education Act which, as Barbara Forrest recently noted "was promoted only by creationists.
I'm all for teaching Biblical creation in school...in a class on comparative theology. What I dislike most about Biblical literalists is that they want us to believe the only other option to evolution is the Biblical account of creation. Well teach Biblical creationism...as long as the creation myths of the Hindus, the American Indians, the Chinese, the Aboriginal Dreamtime and countless other stories of creation are taught as well. How then can anyone declare that their set of fantastic, unprovable myths are anymore valid than another set of fantastic, unprovable myths? Oh, they'll try but while they keep each other busy, science can get on with its work figuring out how the universe actually works and came into being.
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