State of Louisiana Pushes Intelligent Design Out for Unintelligent Darwinism

There is a scenes in Ben Stein's "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" in which the Darwinist go out of their way to commit to Darwin's theory of evolution only to show how many holes there really are in the theory itself. One scientist goes as far as saying life started on the back of crystals. Yeah, like perfectly formed rock!



It appears it may be time for Stein to come up with a sequel to the movie. Intelligent Design is not just being pushed out of college campuses for the silliness of Darwinism, which has never been prove, but it's being kicked out of schools too,most recently in Louisiana.

It appears to be the text book companies that are pushing the agenda and creating curriculum. Since there is only a handful of text book companies, conservatives appear to be losing this education battle.

A Louisiana committee on Tuesday rejected calls by conservatives to include references to the debate over evolution and the religious-based concepts of intelligent design or creationism in state-approved biology textbooks.

The committee of the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted 6-1 to approve the new biology textbooks for public school students.

The new textbooks have been recommended by various state education committees and are expected to be approved by the full education board on Thursday. Critics of the books have said they fail to explain the many scientific challenges to evolution -- and that the books in general are not scientifically up to date -- but others say there is no place for religious concepts in science books.

“We’re disappointed by decision of the board today to move to adopt recommendation of advisory committee,” said Gene Mills, president of Louisiana Family Forum, a conservative Christian group that’s opposed the adoption of the new textbooks. "Textbook purchasers have scored another monopolized victory."