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Science Education is Good. Intellectual Freedom is Good.

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The first creationism bill of the year has hit the books in Kentucky, home state of the Creation Museum.  Sponsored by Republican state representative Tim Moore, an Air Force Academy alum, HR 169 would, “use, as permitted by the local school board, other instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review scientific theories in an objective manner.”  Section 3 of the bill, also known as The Kentucky Science Education and Intellectual Freedom Act, states:

This section shall not be construed to promote any religious doctrine, promote discrimination for or against a particular set of religious beliefs, or promote discrimination for or against religion or nonreligion.

Discrimination against the laws of science, however, is fair game.

(h/t The Sensuous Curmudgeon) Continue Reading →

Rand Paul and the Tsunami of Biblical Proportions

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Probably the most astute journalist commenting on Rand Paul’s sweep in Kentucky is friend of The Revealer, Adele Stan. At AlterNet, Stan writes that Paul’s victory, “represents the first real toe-hold that the old lions of the New Right have really gotten inside the Republican Party proper,” and puts his recent criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and lightening-speed walk-back, into perspective by tracing Rand’s affiliations to some alarming but deep-rooted political organizations like the John Birch Society and Howard Phillips’ Conservative Caucus. Continue Reading →