Link: http://blog.au.org/2008/06/13/the-sky-is-falling-scientists-educators-and-civil-liberties-activists-rightly-sound-alarm-about-la-legislation/

The Louisiana House of Representatives has approved a bill that would facilitate the teaching of creationism in public schools:

On Wednesday, with just two weeks left in the legislative session, the Louisiana House of Representatives approved SB 733, a bill intended to facilitate the teaching of creationism in public schools.

It is good to know that the legislature feels it has enough spare bandwidth to devote to this incredibly important issue. A probable alternative explanation is that the legislature is dominated by fools and knaves who appear to believe that one can legislate against the scientific method in favour of a variation of "God Did It".
It is actions like this that demonstrate that, at a time when the US is wallowing in debt like pigs wallow in shit, too many people here are fixated on legislating to adjust reality. Truly, denial runs deep.
I would, however, be remiss if I failed to note that the Louisiana legislators were elected by the poeple of Louisiana, whose past voting record also includes voting for a convicted felon (Edwin Edwards) and more recently voting in a Governor (Bobby Jindal) who appears to believe that he can advance the cause of humankind by conducting exorcisms.
My tentative conclusion is that the electors in Louisiana would do well to get their brains in better working order and actually start voting for sensible people of a higher level of probity, instead of allowing their legislative processes to be dominated by crooks and moonbats.