Historians R Us

This blog is the property of the AP US History class at Pope John XXIII High School in Everett, MA, USA. Here students explore current events in America, while seeking to understand the historical roots of those events. At the same time, students are able to carry on classroom discussions in the cyber world.

Monday, September 26, 2005

If this gets to be taught in school, what won't?

The article is a little old, but important nonetheless :)

In June 2005, 25 year old Bobby Henderson, sent an open letter to the Kansas School Board regarding Intelligent Design, another theory on the existence of mankind and all other life on Earth. Intelligent design is the theory that some higher being (perhaps God) created the universe and living things, unlike natural selection and evolution, which advocates that such occurrences happened randomly. However, this letter was different than most. Henderson asked that his belief, that the Flying spaghetti Monster, created the universe. Henderson backed up his theory/religion with written evidence, nothing physical. His letter is mostly to discourage teaching it at school, simply because there is not enough evidence to back it up. Ironically, this satire religion has picked up quite a following.

I'll...come up with a comparison later.

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Try the Scopes Monkey Trial for a comparison.

intellectuals, inc.

10:36 PM  

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