Good news from Idaho

Not everyone is happy…

Darwinists are busy keeping the science classroom pure:

By Ed Iverson

Henceforth, there will be no funny business about evolution in Idaho schools.

Parents can rest easy now that the Idaho Science Teachers Association officially banned any challenge to Charles Darwin’s theory of biological evolution. Last week, the ISTA president said teachers in the government schools could teach only things that had been “approved by the scientific community.”

ISTA now has an official position on intelligent design: It’s not science, and it doesn’t belong in the classroom. Neither creationism nor intelligent design can be mentioned as alternatives to Darwinism. The ISTA is following the national organization by claiming that doing so might confuse young minds, giving them the impression that evolution is a controversial theory.

One might conclude from this that the government schools are reluctant to introduce perplexing alternatives. That would be a wrong conclusion. Indeed, children are blithely introduced to all manners of alternatives. For example, they are taught that while some families have a mommy and a daddy, others have two mommies and some have two daddies. This is called alternative lifestyles, you see. And alternatives are good, aren’t they, kids?

The Mandarins that govern the public schools are not at all shy about the possibility of confusing children in many other areas. Muslim traditions are introduced as normal. Alternative history is also popular with educrats. America is vilified both in its founding and its development. One looks in vain for any acknowledgment that Christianity played any part in the early history of America. The entire edifice of education as monopolized by the state leans heavily upon the pillars of multiculturalism and diversity. As a result, kids don’t know the history of Western civilization. They don’t study the great literature, analyze the complex music or scrutinize the great art of the West. They are given alternatives.

But our government schools will suffer no alternative to the doctrine of evolutionary Darwinism. This is because evolutionary Darwinism effectively functions as the educrats’ approved religion. Questioning Darwinism affects the National Science Teachers Association in the same way that drawing cartoons of Mohammed affects militant Islam. KABOOM!