Your government suppresses the science that
doesn’t fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing
present and future generations to pay a terrible price.
The majority of public school students in Arkansas are not taught
evolution due to pressure from right-wing Christian groups and their
supporters inside government. An investigative report by Jason R.
Wiles found that approximately 80% of biology teachers are not
adequately teaching evolution, basic scientific facts like the age of
rocks are withheld from students, science museums visited by students
don’t mention evolution, and even in advanced placement biology classes
the subject isn’t mentioned. The governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee,
even supports the idea that different “theories” (i.e. the bible as fact)
should be taught in science classes, erroneously arguing that evolution
is not an established scientific fact.
The suppression of science in Arkansas schools at the behest of
theocratic fundamentalists and their allies in government is outrageous
in its own right, but it’s also a sharp example of where all of society
is being taken under the Bush regime, with the truth about global
warming suppressed, the bible being taught as fact in public schools, and
promoting “abstinence only” programs while millions suffer and die from
AIDS in Africa. This is not a future we can accept.
The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
(Source: “The Missing Link“, Jason R. Wiles, Arkansas Times, 3/23/06)