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Another Creationist Bill in Mississippi

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Logician1/21/2009 7:16:46 pm PST

re: #402 freetoken

The sticker is likely aimed at the parents, not the children. That way, parents who concur with the sticker will feel better and be able to point to their children that they (the children) should not believe what the teacher says about evolution, if said teacher tries to state that evolution is the truth.

Good point. But even so, parents who care that much will surely tell the children this whether the sticker is there or not. So we’re only worrying about the cases where, in terms of credibility,

Teacher+Textbook > Parents, but

Teacher+Textbook < Parents+Sticker.

Surely that’s unlikely to be very many cases, if any. Especially if the sticker is contradicted in the textbook.