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Evolution disclaimer sticker from Cobb County Board of Education

Just because I was curious, I put my name here in really small font size...then I can see how many people use the image without attribution. Some guy uses my scan to sell things on Cafepress. Oh, well. Probably goes to a good cause.
Evolution disclaimer sticker from Cobb County Board of Education by Colin Purrington.
This is a scan I made of an actual sticker, kindly sent to me by a science teacher in the Cobb County School District. Click on "ALL SIZES" if you'd like to download a higher-resolution version. These stickers were placed into every copy of Kenneth Miller's Biology textbook, which is shamelessly pro-science and pro-evolution, and which outraged local creationists who had kids in the public school system. By the way, the district's motto is, "A community with a passion for learning" (really!). It's also a community with a passion for plagiarizing: the sticker verbiage was lifted from neighboring Alabama, whose State Board of Education is populated by Creationists. (If you'd like to read the Alabama disclaimer, please go to my Flickr photo here: www.flickr.com/photos/cpurrin1/73959468/.)

May 25, 2006 UPDATE: The appeal process concerning this sticker has concluded -- the judge of the original trial gets to decide whether to hold a new trial or to "add" new information to the record. Should be ent-o-taining, as per usual, and an embarrassment to Cobb County residents with reality-based views of reality. 
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nikaboyce  Pro User  says:

freaking religionists.
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

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ffsurfer21 says:

That pisses me off.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

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Colin Purrington  Pro User  says:

More information, and update on the legal status, go to www.ncseweb.org/selman/Selman_FAQ.html.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

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Alasdair Yates  Pro User  says:

Presumably they have similar stickers on physics books when they teach about gravity and Newtonion Physics (if, indeed, they do).

Oh, and has anyone pointed out to them the evolution does not, as the sticker says, concern the origin of life (which is abiogenesis), but on the adaptation of life to its surroundings?
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

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Colin Purrington  Pro User  says:

Yea, most diety-worshippers don't have much of a problem with evolution per se. What they have a huge problem with is that life originated naturally. They call the latter "evolution" just to cover everything, I suspect.
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

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nikaboyce  Pro User  says:

Its really just about control.

They want to master the meme around "how life started" as if by mastering it, it becomes what they imagine. As a consequence, any alternative idea is a threat to their magical construction.

That is the basis of magical thought which is the sort of mindset they are wholly mired in.

Its quite a psychosis.
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

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NowPublic says:

Thank you for sharing your photo!This photograph appears in a NowPublic news story:A Museum of Creationism.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

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gockee1 says:

The theory of gravity is just that, a theory, unlike Newton's Laws. Perhaps it to should be 'critically considered' by the next creationist who goes near a cliff edge?

It should provide a simple (if terminally abrupt) lesson in the difference between the scientific community's definition of a 'theory' and the creationists misuse of the word in an everyday sense.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

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Think4yourself says:

Some of the stickers are funny, but to say we evolved from monkeys is ignorant. If that were true we would currently see monkeys turning into humans. So in that sense, evolution should be approached with an open mind.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

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nikaboyce  Pro User  says:

thing4yourself: or you could take the time to actually learn evolutionary biology...
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

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Colin Purrington  Pro User  says:

Did I _say_ we evolved from monkeys, or was this something you read someplace else, and decided to blame on me? And by the way, you might restate your complaint in the comment section for more relevant images:

www.flickr.com/photos/cpurrin1/2200550268/in/ set-1495012/
www.flickr.com/photos/cpurrin1/135962531/in/s et-1495012/

rather than on a page that really has nothing to do with human evolution details.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

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knight_of_patmos says:

At first, I thought it was designed to discredit science. But after reading the Alabama version, it is apparent that this is trying to calm the nerves of the creationists. It is an attempt to get the creationists to READ this material before they wail their arms in protest. If the creationists had such a huge voice, they would simply change the curriculum. They do not.They are the minority, albeit with a loud cry and and an ignorant agenda. This sticker is set up to encourage the minority to at the very least THINK. It is still a sad day when we logical thinkers have to appease a few stubborn individuals to better our society. (our president being one of them.)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

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mganupuru says:

That does seem to be the purpose of Alabama's disclaimer, but I was raised in Cobb County, and I can assure you, the department of education has little to no respect for established scientific convention. I was pre-med at the University of Georgia when they chose to place the disclaimers in the books, and I do remember witnessing the development of a highly antagonistic relationship between Cobb County's Dep't of Education and the science department at UGA.

As a side note, we're not all like that.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

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Colin Purrington  Pro User  says:

And didn't the woman who spearheaded the sticker decide to homeschool her kids, or move them to another district?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

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Enrique T  Pro User  says:

It makes me sick read this stuff.


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Seen in Science! (?)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

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mganupuru says:

I don't know. If I'm talking to a friend about Obama in a public place, for example, I'll get seven heads darting my way followed by a look of knowing--'Well, she's a minority and probably a heathen--no wonder' attitudes. (I wish I could say I was kidding or being paranoid or cynical..)
But that's life.
Living there has definitely desensitized me to a lot of ridiculousness. Otherwise I think I would've been the world's first 23-year old with a stress-induced aneurysm. ;)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

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Captain Smurf  Pro User  says:

Did they design asimilar sticker for the Bible, Koran, Guru Granth Sahib or the Vedas?
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

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Colin Purrington  Pro User  says:

I think the best option would be to make bar-code stickers for these books. Libraries that use bar coding to refile books could then file them into fiction section automatically. Would be great fun.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

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POThead - Plain Obvious Truth says:

Perhaps these labels really came from books.. Perhaps only 2 or 3 are actually legit. Some appear fabricated.. This post is not in reference to the 1 single scanned item posted but of the several typed out in this same article. If you surfed in via a different url from a search engine you may not have seen them. Now to the point of this post. ----Does anyone here realize what is even more obscene than religionists denying obvious scientific facts? Two things actually. I am unable to decide which is the worst of the two. 1 - People that make up stories "pretending to the opposing side" or 2 - Those that are too dumb to realize anyone can pose as the person(s) they are trying to deface or discredit. This is especially true when they know they have a load of gullible smucks that will believe anything they read. It's exactly like Sarah Palin being accused of thinking Africa was a country and not a continent. The very same group that claimed she said this later admitted she did not. But it was too late, the damage was done and unrepairable. Don't flame me if you like or hate Palin. This was only an example to make my point. So with that said. Are you smuck? This form of physiological conformity has been around for decades and people are still falling for it.
-I.E "Oh, they wrote that? That proves they are morons."
Did they actually write it or are you just a smuck for being too quick to believe a liar who shares your point of view. I firmly believe in evolution. I even more so firmly do not believe so called "quotes" or events, or cute little stories that some moron proved how dumb they are just because the apposing side said they did. Don't just think about this. Remember it. That is, unless you really are that gullible. And always remember.. The WORST type of liar there is , is one who mixes bits of truth in with their lies to make it nearly impossible to sift out what is and isn't facts.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Colin Purrington  Pro User  says:

It's spelled, "schmuck", I think. I might be a smuck, too, whatever that is.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Curious Quail  Pro User  says:

This is pretty scary.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Colin Purrington  Pro User  says:

Yea. I bet there are even more stickers like this in all the 17,000+ school districts in US. What a terrible system we have.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Mr.FoxTalbot  Pro User  says:

Shameful.

Religion should also be critically considered. Right? No?
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

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