From News-Leader.com:
Sedalia — T-shirts promoting the Smith-Cotton High School band’s fall program have been recalled because of concerns about the shirt’s evolution theme.
Assistant superintendent Brad Pollitt said parents complained to him after the band marched in the Missouri State Fair parade. Though the shirts don’t violate the school’s dress code, Pollitt noted that the district is required by law to remain neutral on religion.
On August 31st, 2009 at 6:49 pm
OK, so school officials and citizens of Sedalia, Missouri, have decided that not only is the theory of evolution “religious” in nature, which means it should be avoided in school displays, but also that as a concept it is controversial and repugnant, so much so that they don’t want their kids wearing T-shirts with evolutionary motifs, however humorous.
That’s great for the rest of the U.S., but not for the kids of Sedalia. And here’s why…
The Sedalia school system will continue to turn out scientifically crippled graduates with no fully developed knowledge of evolution, which means that they will be unfit for many careers in the sciences such as medicine, pharmacology, biology, bacteriology, anthropology, and countless others.
Those jobs will go to the scientifically literate kids who graduate from more enlightened regions of the country. Their superior education will make them eligible for professional careers that offer a lifetime of greater income potential.
The scientifically illiterate losers from Sedalia will settle into the trades and small-business jobs that are the traditional career paths for people with lousy educations. Because they lack the fundamental scientific education necessary for dozens of better-paying careers.
And that is as it should be. Some kids will be winners. Some will be losers. Survival of the fittest, and future success, will depend on which group of graduates is better equipped to cope with a changing and more demanding job environment.
Think of the kids of Sedalia and their parents as unwitting participants in a gigantic social experiment in which modern evolutionary theory is being played out. What will it be for them, success or failure? What are the inescapable consequences of social Darwinism for the people of Sedalia too ignorant to recognize the consequences of their own crippling behavior?
Thanks to the scientific illiteracy of Sedalia and other areas of Missouri, and the scientific ignorance produced by other school districts in the U.S., the result will be pretty much as expected. Kids with better scientific educations will succeed in dozens of well-paying, professional careers that will forever be unavailable to the undereducated losers from school districts like Sedalia.
Isn’t it ironic for those who reject evolution that this is how social Darwinism always works?