The Christian war against science education continues where I live in Florida.

Florida's new public school science standards are perhaps the best of America. Our old science standards didn't mention the word "evolution" and those standards were given the grade F for fail. Despite massive crying from Florida's Christian assholes the new science standards (written by the experts, scientists and science teachers) which make evolution one of the big ideas of science were successfully implemented with virtually no changes.

Did this experience convince our Christian scum to shut the fuck up? Of course not. Our state government is once again trying to destroy science education to defend the Christian death cult.

One of our politicians, an asshole for Jeebus, said "If you're going to teach evolution, then you have to teach the other side so you can have critical thinking."

Translated that means:

"If you're going to teach SCIENCE, then you also have to teach MAGIC so you can have critical thinking."

By the way if you're a pro-science Christian you should be ashamed of yourself. If you had any sense of decency you would throw out your anti-science cult.

Antievolution legislation in Florida

Antievolution legislation in Florida

• March 7th, 2011

• Florida
• anti-evolution
• 2011

Senate Bill 1854, introduced in the Florida Senate on March 5, 2011, would, if enacted, amend a section of Florida law to require "[a] thorough presentation and critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution" in the state's public schools. The bill is sponsored by Stephen R. Wise (R-District 5), who in February 2009 introduced SB 2396 (PDF), which would have amended the same section of Florida law in the same way. Before Wise introduced SB 2396, he announced his intention to introduce a bill requiring "intelligent design" to be taught in Florida's public schools. "If you're going to teach evolution, then you have to teach the other side so you can have critical thinking," he told the Jacksonville Times-Union (February 8, 2009). Wise acknowledged that his bill was likely to invite a legal challenge, but contended, "Someplace along the line you've got to be able to make a value judgment of what it is you think is the appropriate thing." Evidently he changed his mind about how to accomplish his goal, since "intelligent design" was not mentioned in the bill. SB 2396 was denounced as "an insult to citizens who are tired of stomping over the same ground over and over again" by Florida Citizens for Science and described (PDF) as "a deliberate attempt to undermine the adopted science standards" by the Florida Academy of Sciences. On May 1, 2009, the bill died in committee when the legislature adjourned. SB 1854 is the eighth antievolution bill introduced in a state legislature in 2011.