1. Oklahoma: One Step from Doom

Comment #141067 by Simon Sherbourne on March 10, 2008 at 1:10 am

Just a moment, isn't the quote from the bill saying precisely what we would wish it to? It says that religious views must be treated in the same way as non-religious views.

Now, the non-religiously influenced answer, 2 2=5, would be marked as incorrect. As religious expressions are to be treated equally and without prejudice, the answer that the universe is 6000 years old _must_ also be marked as incorrect, or be in violation of the bill...

Looked at from another angle, the bill gives equal protection to secular views, which could be useful where a school board is controlled by the religious.

If the intention of this bill, with this wording, was to allow religious views to be accepted as 'correct' in science classes, then it is unusable, because if you accept that reading you must concede that 2 2=5 is also valid, as 'an expression of the student's secular views'.

2. AAI 07 DVDs by RDFRS are Now Available!

Comment #82284 by Simon Sherbourne on October 26, 2007 at 1:54 am

What a shame that these videos have been taken down.

Watching through these yesterday gave me a real sense of what is happening within the 'movement'–if you can call it that–and made me think for the first time about what I could do to help. Surely limiting the reach of these videos to the core of people who might buy RDF DVDs is self-defeating.

In particular, I'd like as many people as possible to see Eugenie Scott's excellent presentation.

Simon