Evolution disclaimer sticker from Cobb County Board of Education
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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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freaking religionists.
Posted 31 months ago.
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That pisses me off.
Posted 31 months ago.
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More information, and update on the legal
status, go to www.ncseweb.org/selman/Selman_FAQ.html .
Posted 31 months ago.
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Presumably they have similar stickers on
physics books when they teach about gravity
and Newtonion Physics (if, indeed, they do).
Posted 21 months ago.
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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 21 months ago.
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Its really just about control.
Posted 21 months ago.
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Thank you for sharing your photo!This
photograph appears in a NowPublic news story:A Museum of Creationism .
Posted 14 months ago.
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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?
Posted 14 months ago.
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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 5 months ago.
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thing4yourself: or you could take the time to
actually learn evolutionary biology...
Posted 5 months ago.
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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/
Posted 5 months ago.
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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 3 months ago.
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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.
Posted 3 months ago.
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And didn't the woman who spearheaded the
sticker decide to homeschool her kids, or
move them to another district?
Posted 3 months ago.
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It makes me sick read this stuff.Seen in Science! (? )
Posted 3 months ago.
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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..)
Posted 2 months ago.
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Did they design asimilar sticker for the
Bible, Koran, Guru Granth Sahib or the Vedas?
Posted 4 weeks ago.
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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 4 weeks ago.
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