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Monday, May 11, 2009


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Can the Texas BoE walk and deny evolution at the same time?: [Via Bad Astronomy]
What does it say about your Board of Education when ad executives for a chewing gum company understand evolution better than you do?

... or a beer company, for that matter. Of course, that's a European beer... and evidently beer was invented before the Universe itself was.

Tip o' bacterium's flagellum to ...

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What makes this so ironic is that, while it is true that the ads display an understanding of evolution that is Promethean compared to the Texas BoE, they still display some misunderstandings of the pace and character of evolution.

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