Stupid Cnuts

When Bush comes to the end of this term and can no longer be in charge of the Republican Party or president, can I suggest a replacement? What about King Canute?

The reason? This story from Florida. Republicans there have passed a law which will give students the right to sue their professors for teaching ideas that conflict with their beliefs. I have no doubt that the first people to use it will be Christians objecting to evolution being taught as fact.

Isn’t the whole point of an education that you are made aware of all sides to any story, given access to conflicting and contradictory theories so that you can then make up your own mind based on the available evidence? What do the religious right have to fear from the teaching of evolution? Are their own ‘intelligent design’ theories so weak that anything contrary to them must be banned? This is a dangerous move. Today evolution, tomorrow – what? Stifling debate, any debate is not the way.