A retired science teacher believes the teaching of evolution is "bad science" and has asked a federal court to declare it illegal to teach the subject in public schools.Read the rest here.
Tom Ritter, a former physics and chemistry teacher of over 10 years, filed a lawsuit earlier this month against evolution in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the same court that ruled that teaching of intelligent design in public schools is unconstitutional.
Ritter told The Christian Post this week that he didn't pay too much attention to biology before, but now in retirement he saw problems that he couldn't overlook any longer.
"It kind of got to be like picking a scab," he said.
In his one-page brief and one-page suit, Ritter argues that the Blue Mountain School District in Orwigsburg, Penn., is an illegal body because it teaches evolution.
A local resident, Ritter wants the district to stop collecting taxes from him until such teaching is halted. This is one scheme in his plan to get rid of public schools altogether, which he considers to be a waste of taxpayer dollars.
On a side note I want to thank Mr. Ritter for giving me an excuse to repost one of my all-time favorite blog pics.
3 comments:
Where did you find that pic???
Angela
Angela,
I can't really remember. It's possible I got it from a thread over at Free Republic. As a quick disclaimer I think FR is a borderline extremist website and I stopped linking it years ago. But it is a great source for news.
The Crescat would probably like it!
Angela
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