Another Data Point On Oklahoma Education
This is a letter to the editor in today’s Tulsa World:
>>The June 10 cartoon “Non Sequitur” displayed some of the most ludicrous irony I have ever seen in print. It tried vainly to characterize whoever feels it reasonable to doubt the theory of evolution as being as illogical as those who would deny the law of gravity.
>>To those, whom I realize includes the majority of the scientific community, who don’t understand the difference between gravity and the theory of evolution, take a second to find the switch that turns your head from the “intellectual sounding hat rack” setting to the thinking machine it was designed to be.
>>Now, the law of gravity has been observed in action by humans, and we can demonstrate it at any time. No people ever observed evolution occurring and we cannot reproduce it in the present. This leaves only the fossil record as “evidence” one way or the other and all honest evolutionists, including Darwin, have admitted that the fossil record is the biggest obstacle to believing in evolution.
>>When the world’s scientists believed the world was flat, at least it was because of lack of information. In evolution the world has superimposed the greatest hoax in history onto the fabric of current scientific thought and posterity will eventually bear out this persistent logic.
I have chosen to omit the writer’s name out of respect for his family and the embarrassment this letter must cause them.
I don’t know whether it’s more amazing that someone wrote that letter, or that the Tulsa World published it. Wouldn’t the editors of the World have immediately thrown the letter in the trash if the author had suggested that both common sense and the Bible dictate that the world is flat, and that any notion that science has that it’s a sphere “has superimposed the greatest hoax in history onto the fabric of current scientific thought and posterity will eventually bear out this persistent logic.” Of course they would have. But the topic of evolution is one still deemed open for debate it seems.
In the 1960s I was attending the University of North Carolina. My professor was discussing evolution and asked our class of about 30 if any of us didn’t believe in evolution. One (older) woman raised her hand. The class laughed at her. In the 1990s a biology(!) professor at the Tulsa Community College asked her class if any of them actually BELIEVED in evolution. One student raised her hand. The class laughed at her.
“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers, these are people of the land, the common clay of the new west. You know . . . morons!” —The Ringo Kid, in Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles
>>The June 10 cartoon “Non Sequitur” displayed some of the most ludicrous irony I have ever seen in print. It tried vainly to characterize whoever feels it reasonable to doubt the theory of evolution as being as illogical as those who would deny the law of gravity.
>>To those, whom I realize includes the majority of the scientific community, who don’t understand the difference between gravity and the theory of evolution, take a second to find the switch that turns your head from the “intellectual sounding hat rack” setting to the thinking machine it was designed to be.
>>Now, the law of gravity has been observed in action by humans, and we can demonstrate it at any time. No people ever observed evolution occurring and we cannot reproduce it in the present. This leaves only the fossil record as “evidence” one way or the other and all honest evolutionists, including Darwin, have admitted that the fossil record is the biggest obstacle to believing in evolution.
>>When the world’s scientists believed the world was flat, at least it was because of lack of information. In evolution the world has superimposed the greatest hoax in history onto the fabric of current scientific thought and posterity will eventually bear out this persistent logic.
I have chosen to omit the writer’s name out of respect for his family and the embarrassment this letter must cause them.
I don’t know whether it’s more amazing that someone wrote that letter, or that the Tulsa World published it. Wouldn’t the editors of the World have immediately thrown the letter in the trash if the author had suggested that both common sense and the Bible dictate that the world is flat, and that any notion that science has that it’s a sphere “has superimposed the greatest hoax in history onto the fabric of current scientific thought and posterity will eventually bear out this persistent logic.” Of course they would have. But the topic of evolution is one still deemed open for debate it seems.
In the 1960s I was attending the University of North Carolina. My professor was discussing evolution and asked our class of about 30 if any of us didn’t believe in evolution. One (older) woman raised her hand. The class laughed at her. In the 1990s a biology(!) professor at the Tulsa Community College asked her class if any of them actually BELIEVED in evolution. One student raised her hand. The class laughed at her.
“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers, these are people of the land, the common clay of the new west. You know . . . morons!” —The Ringo Kid, in Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles
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