Astrological Dynamics? Really?
By Chad Crawford • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: engaging
I was a bit skeptical when my horoscope said I would find humor in something sad today.
But I had to laugh when I read the South Dakota resolution being emailed around the office this week, as well as sent by Drew, requiring schools to teach:
That there are a variety of climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics that can effect [sic] world weather phenomena and that the significance and interrelativity [sic] of these factors is [sic] largely speculative
I want to mention that today is National Grammar Day.
Some states have been introducing legislation lately requiring “balanced teaching’ on a variety of hot button topics, including evolution and global warming. This article points out the strategy of linking the issues together to promote ‘academic freedom in general’ and avoid a ruling that the legislation violates the first amendment.
I hope schools respond with sarcasm by offering a course on pseudoscience, and include it all: young earth creationism, astrology, global warming denialism, FSM…
Will there be an advanced course on writing horoscopes?
Chad Crawford is a graduate of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Wake Forest University Divinity School. He is originally from Austin, Texas and now lives in San Francisco, where he is the online communications manager for Interfaith Power & Light, a nonprofit organization mobilizing a religious response to global warming. He's a former youth minister and long distance hiker sharing thoughts on ecology, politics, culture, and faith.
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Sigh. So sad to be a witness to the first reversal in history in the scientific knowledge of the average American.