Textbook disclaimer stickers - the Creationists didn't give up after the Scopes trial. A
Gallop Poll discovered recently that forty-five percent of Americans also believe that God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago. A third of Americans are biblical literalists who believe that the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word.
Now they think they have the political high ground in the US, there's been a resurgence in the drive to downplay (if not totally eliminate) the teaching of evolution in American schools. They've started by adding stickers to the covers of science books which they deem to have questionable content (that would be all of 'em presumably). This site offers some alternate stickers which you might find useful.
Having taught in the American education system, I know
just how uninformed college students can be; they really don't need any further handicapping (unless of course you want to keep them ignorant so they'll vote for you). However I've got no problem with suggesting students keep an open mind and question everything that they are told.
So when can we start stickering the Bible?
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