It's 100% religious. You won't find anyone who is not of an abrahamic religion and is also opposed to evolution. Perhaps the bullying is just icing on the cake. I do agree, so-called 'conservativism' these days seems to consist of bemoaning that science is going too fast for them to keep up, so rather than educating themselves, they prefer for us to slow science down. "Wah! I missed my stop at the dark ages! Turn around!"
I don't remember our science teacher ever having trouble with evolution in our school, which is ironic as he had no formal science education and was, in fact, our school's football coach. Which school did you go to? It doesn't suprise me, now, that such a thing would happen, but would probably have gotten me more interested in the subject if I'd known about it then.
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Re: Louisiana!
Date: 2008-06-04 06:17 pm (UTC)I don't remember our science teacher ever having trouble with evolution in our school, which is ironic as he had no formal science education and was, in fact, our school's football coach. Which school did you go to? It doesn't suprise me, now, that such a thing would happen, but would probably have gotten me more interested in the subject if I'd known about it then.
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