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Busy day -- Day 2 of the Hazmat Team cleaning out Bob's office, Day 2 of my nervous breakdown.
So not much text to go with this, and the stamp itself was Art Therapy last night, while I was babbling and drooling and weeping and muttering.
Texas, whose science education state agency seems to be run by a Holy Dentist -- I don't know if he's elected or appointed by the governor, which was President Bush's job before he got this new job which has done so much to shape and guide U.S. science policy -- is going to need all the alternative theories of Creation it can get so that it can teach schoolkids that there are lots more theories than just Natural Selection. President Bush is one of many thinkers who believe our kids get a much better science education when they're given all the different theories of when and how the World and the Universe came into being.
For the Earth's age, some say 4,540,000,000 years ago, and back it up with old rocks and Geiger counters. (I have a Geiger counter, if I can ever find the right size old batteries to get it running again, I could measure the age of old rocks myself.) Another guy says it was nightfall preceding 23 October 4004 BC. Now and then he's winning in Kansas and Dover, Pennsylvania, Polk County, Florida, and he just got the head of science education pushed under a bus in Texas. Our Man-On-The-Ground in Helvetia says he has influential advocates there, too.
This one is Hindu or Hindu-ish and comes from a famous story sometimes attributed to Stephen Hawking, who had just given a lecture on the Big Bang theory, when a woman in the audience demanded to know how his theory took into account that the world rested on the backs of an infinite number of turtles. He did the best he could to respond, but she was having none of it, and said:
"That's very clever, young man,
but it's turtles all the way down."
but it's turtles all the way down."
Me, I got my money on Flying Spaghetti Monster. If well-educated public-school kids deserve more than one theory of biological Creation, it makes the most sense to teach them about Flying Spaghetti Monster.
