Florida Follies: Billions of Years and Dollars VANISH!
12 03 2008First the dollars - we slashed education (and other) funding today, made a half a billion go POOF. So much for “educating kids” being held harmless in the budget.
But that wasn’t as astounding as the billions of years of evolution that vanished along with it — apparently we’re not holding that harmless either. Reason is just too darned expensive for our schools to afford these days? Looks like we’re going back to the basics of human nature, superstition, belief in supernatural powers that can be called upon to smite enemies and save kids, and such: Ben Stein’s in town today hosting a private, closed indoctri- oops, screening session of his movie, Expelled.
Plus, everything we ever knew and believed about the power of Government in the Sunshine has been repossessed, gone!
“It’s not a closed meeting. We invited the whole Legislature and spouses and staff,” John Stemberger, head of the Florida Family Policy Council, said Tuesday. “The movie is separate from any legislation.”
“No business is being discussed,” he said. “They’re just watching a movie.”
What’s the most astounding of all is how public representatives make human reason go poof.
Lynn at Bore Me to Tears has great art for all this!
It reminded me of the Ayn Randians giving away her books “free” in schools, and of this too:
“The Story of Homeschool Truth: Time We Learned Our Lesson?”
Too much “ammunition” for one “education” post — I forgot to even mention this irrational legislative storyline:
Terrific. Now we can all wait for the skit on Keith Olbermann’s show about FL students shooting it out while screaming “I am not a monkey!”
Just terrific.
Nance
Re: the “academic freedom” legislation that’s been filed:
And the star himself was in town, this time as the conservative political character he plays in real life:
Was this movie propagandizing to legislators as a group, meant to affect government “action” on legislation affecting propaganda in public schools, in turn meant to affect children’s beliefs? Let us think indeed.
March 20, 2008 11:42PM
Dawkins Crashes ‘Expelled’ Party
(Christianity Today Blog)
Noted Darwinist shows up at screening of Intelligent Design documentary.
by Mark Moring
Expelled, a new documentary that argues the case for Intelligent Design from a Judeo-Christian perspective, has been in the headlines lately, prior to its April 18 theatrical release.
The film, hosted and narrated by Ben Stein, has been screened to invitation-only audiences at churches and for various Christian groups. But several critics have worked their way in to some of the screenings, most notably Roger Moore of The Orlando Sentinel, who recently trashed the movie in his blog.
A critic of another kind “crashed” a screening in Minnesota on Thursday night–Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and arguably the most outspoken critic of Intelligent Design and Creationism. Dawkins himself appears in the documentary–but claims he was duped into believing it was going to be an objective account of Darwinism vs. ID.
Jeffrey Overstreet, a film critic for CT Movies, broke the news on his own blog Thursday night after receiving an e-mail from a college student who was at the screening. . .
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