Since we’re on atavism, here’s the latest on creationism:

[Oklahoma State] Senator Plans Bill to Address Evolution in Public Schools

It’s been a controversial issue for years and now one Oklahoma lawmaker says he plans on introducing a bill next year dealing with teaching evolution in public schools.

Meredith Saldana has more on what the senator says is a very important issue.

State Senator Josh Brecheen stressed that the final wording of the bill is not complete but says the issues the bill deals with are vital to our children.

Senator Brecheen says children should be given all the facts when it comes to evolution.

“If we really are going to use science in the classroom, let’s use the full science, let’s not just be selective in our science. That’s what my legislation is designed to do,” Brecheen said.

The senator says he supports having creationism—the belief that God created the world without evolution—taught in public schools.

“You either remove both or you put both in,” he said.

In an op-ed he wrote last week, Brecheen called evolution, “a religion,” and says there are serious flaws in the theory that students ought to know.

“The main fallacy with Darwinian theory,” he argued, “is the sudden appearance at about 540 million years [ago] of fossil records. It’s like a guy standing at the chalkboard and saying okay here’s an atom [and then writing] question mark, question mark, human—here we are. But its fact, and there’s zero evidence to back it up.”

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TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!!

Hehe… his evidence is his ignorance over the Cambrian explosion.

These bills seem to appear every year in state Assemblies across this nation. Usually they go no where in committee. Yet, in this age of raging atavism and reactionary politics I wonder if this one will get more traction?