debgeisler | A good day for science and history education

The Orleans Parish, Louisiana board of education last night passed a resolution that read, in part,

No history textbook shall be approved which has been adjusted in accordance with the State of Texas revisionist guidelines nor shall any science textbook be approved which presents creationism or intelligent design as science or scientific theories.

This flies in the face of recent actions by Louisiana's governor, Bobby Jindal, whose pet voucher program (giving voucher credit for students to attend private schools teaching creationism) has been under fire for quite a while.

Further, adds the Orleans Parish School Board,

No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach any aspect of religious faith as science or in a science class. No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach creationism or intelligent design in classes designated as science classes.

Perhaps if conservative groups stopped aligning themselves with religious idiots who fight scientific discovery every step of the way, more scientists might be conservative in leaning. As it is, a 2009 PEW study showed that only 6% of scientists surveyed self-identify as Republicans. Most of the rest of us (either natural or human scientists) cannot reconcile the current Republican party with scientific rigor or sensibility.

Humans riding dinosaurs in the name of Christian ideology? I don't think so. Keep your faith - whatever faith that is - out of our science classrooms.