Come come along with me to the plateau in the black sky with a thousand stars all bright which melt with your gentle smiles Come sweet angel let's stand on this cloudy floor where we don't need to close our eyes in our place so high Silence listens to our every breath And with the morning sunrise We'd have made a dream to try
Archive for February, 2004
This is not about the Paris Hilton thing anyway, but about a recent piece of news—apparently the state of Georgia in the US are going to remove the word evolution out of textbooks because it goes against the theory of creationalism which religious texts have been preaching. It sounds like a story right out of Southpark. How does something like this happen? Who in his right mind who gets up to a position of “decision-maker” would make such a proposal and actually go about implementing it? Politicians. Apparently a number of other US states already omit the word “evolution” in their teaching.
We are heading the wrong way when teaching is altered to ignore what is common knowledge today, to continue to believe the wrong past. Education is fundamental to overcoming the boundaries of specifics in religion, race, caste. “My religion does not have Adam and Eve in it!” Let’s believe in what we know today and work at improving it. Not by ignoring it and going backwards. Believe in God if you want to—for we don’t know any better about that.