the awesome/terrifying freedom

i was alerted to this article by the posting on john's blog. as he says: brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

education seems to have eroded so much that most people don't even know what evolution actually is. of course it doesn't help when equally uneducated and irrational parents are weilding their pta power to completely remove evolution from the curriculum - or, as was the case in my high school, it's being taught by half hearted 'science' teachers who are really the school's volleyball coaches.