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[andrewducker]

The candidates for Miss USA answer the burning question of 86 years ago: should evolution be taught in schools?

I am, by the way, incredibly impressed by Google's powers of guesswork:

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[fjm.livejournal.com]

Whimper.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

This is filling me with a large feeling of **GRAR**! For the beginning anyway....

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

And even the people who seem to support it keep using words like "belief" and "choice" and some don't even seem to know what evolution actually is.The ones that support teaching evolution in school almost seem to be apologizing for choosing that answer.

I'm kind of filled with rage at this point. Gr. Watch me rampage. Rar. *throws a plastic bottle on the floor...for his dog to play with*

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU MISS VERMONT FOR RESTORING MY FAITH IN HUMANITY.

[skington.livejournal.com]

I hadn't made it all the way to Miss Vermont. I'm now going to tough it out and hope for the best.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

Don't. Seriously. She wasn't worth it, but I was happy that at least one person was unapologetic about it.

[soon_lee]

Gah! Despite fastforwarding to Vermont.

[daisyflip.livejournal.com]

At least the winner, Miss California (the "Science Geek"), thinks Evolution should be taught in schools

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

Best reportage of the Scopes trial I've read is probably Mencken: pages 215-236 of the Johns Hopkins University Press paperback edition of "Heathen Days", ISBN 0-8018-5339-7.

Amongst other things he argues, from personal acquaintance with Darrow, that Darrow wanted a guilty verdict - the point was to impugn the law and to utterly discredit Bryan as a political figure, not to get an acquittal. Seems a bit hard on Scopes...

[sir-montag.livejournal.com]

Ya see, Americans, they believe that some aspects of Science are matters of faith rather than fact. To them, anyone who thinks that evolution is an integral part of biology class is just a competitive religion that doesn't see eye to eye with their own. Replace 'biology class' with 'Religion X that is opposed to person X's beliefs' and the attitudes make sense.

Don't you love humanity?

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

it's that trial that stokes me up!