You are hereby appointed Commissioner of the Dept. of Education for Tennessee

If I were Commissioner of Education, I would answer "No" and accept the General Assembly's admiration.

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Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. -- Charley the Australopithecine

Well, it's not the place of the courts to determine whether or not there should be an interest in creationism. All they have been asked to do is determine whether teaching creationism in the public schools violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.And, as a side note, we "evolutionists" aren't afraid for people to look into creationism for themselves. We aren't out to prevent other view points or to censor objectionable opinions. What we want is that the public schools themselves remain neutral in regard to promoting or discouraging religious beliefs.

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It has become fashionable on the left and in Western Europe to compare the Bush administration to the Nazis. The comparison is not without some superficial merit. In both cases the government is run by a small gang of snickering, stupid thugs whose vision of paradise is full of explosions and beautifully designed prisons. -- Matt Taibbi

In a previous post, you made the comment that recent court decisions would make students interested in learning about creationism outside of the class.I was just pointing out that this is neither relevant to the court decisions, nor a problem for those of us who accept the theory of evolution.

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It has become fashionable on the left and in Western Europe to compare the Bush administration to the Nazis. The comparison is not without some superficial merit. In both cases the government is run by a small gang of snickering, stupid thugs whose vision of paradise is full of explosions and beautifully designed prisons. -- Matt Taibbi