by Tina Grazier
The theory of global warming has been pushed on the American public over the last few decades with great fanfare, complete with sky is falling scare tactics, endearing Indian princesses and cute little penguins. Having accomplished the task of selling the dangers associated with global warming through the use of emotional entreaty, the environmental lobby has also successfully pressured government officials at the national, state, and local levels. The product of their lobbying is experienced as oppressive restrictions, bans, taxes, regulations, mandates, and costly delays in production or building, as well as higher prices for products. The movement has also forced the use of inferior products, like those twirley light bulbs that we now know have mercury in them and the gasoline additive that was later found to be more polluting than the original product. The worldwide banning of DDTan incredibly stupid mandate resulting in millions of deaths from illness associated with malariais the deadliest sham of the environmental movement and one they refuse to acknowledge. All of this, and more, has been accomplished through an aggressive and intimidating movement that is sustained by blind faith and motivated by self-important notions of making a difference, the desire for absolute control, and, of course, greed.
One of the most insufferable methods for promulgating this theory is aimed at our children through the teaching of global warming as fact in public schools and through the entertainment industry in warm and fuzzy movies and television programs. I was quite amused, therefore, when I ran across the following New York Times Editorial that features leftist fears about what is called an assault on Darwins theory of Evolution:
Louisianas Latest Assault on Darwin
It comes as no surprise that the Louisiana State Legislature has overwhelmingly approved a bill that seeks to undercut the teaching of evolution in the public schools. The state, after all, has a sorry history as a hotbed of creationists efforts to inject religious views into science courses. All that stands in the way of this retrograde step is Gov. Bobby Jindal. ** In the 1980s, Louisiana passed an infamous Creationism Act that prohibited the teaching of evolution unless it was accompanied by instruction in creation science. That effort to gain essentially equal time for creationism was slapped down by the United States Supreme Court as an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. State legislators, mimicking scattered efforts elsewhere, responded with a cagier, indirect approach. ** The new bill doesnt mention either creationism or its close cousin, intelligent design. It explicitly disavows any intent to promote a religious doctrine. It doesnt try to ban Darwin from the classroom or order schools to do anything. It simply requires the state board of education, if asked by local school districts, to help create an environment that promotes critical thinking and objective discussion about not only evolution and the origins of life but also about global warming and human cloning, two other btes noires of the right. Teachers would be required to teach the standard textbook but could use supplementary materials to critique it.
Wow! Now that is dangerousand radical! The very idea!! Imagineencouraging children to think for themselves, to question and consider alternative opinions and thought. How in the world can we allow teachers to introduce materials other than those approved by Darwinists and provided by the stateI meanwhat can the Louisiana State Legislature be thinking?
Oh, I dont knowperhaps improving the quality of education? Or, heres an idea, making sure future generations of Americans can actually think for themselves? Bottom linethe global warming scam and the scam that is Darwinism both constitute the real assault on Americansan assault on our childrens minds, on the way we conduct our businesses, on our culture, our pocketbooks, and our entire way of life.
Darwinism is not based on proven science, as the writer suggests, but on unproven theory. The editorial writer cannot bring himself to utter this damning word, however, referring to it instead as the unchallenged central organizing principle for modern biology. No matter what they chose to call it, it is a theory being taught as absolute truth by people who are unwilling to entertain competing theories and ideas, or to even allow them in the classroom. This is compelling evidence of incredibly closed minds, a condition that scientists would not and could not abide.
If an assault is being waged its pretty clear to me who the perps are. You will find them on the left in a closed minded state of denial.