Removing the Anti-Evolution Stickers in Cobb County

Cobb County, Georgia, continues to fight the court order that they remove the anti-evolution stickers from their science text books. Cobb County wants to keep using them to cast doubt on evolution and promote creationism, but the courts won't let them. So, reluctantly, they have begun to remove the stickers. It's about time, too.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports:

Mirsajedin was not awed by the historic weight of the occasion as he painstakingly removed stickers from texts at Sprayberry High School. He was just perturbed that the paper disclaimers were not the more easily removed vinyl kind. "This job, it's kind of ironic," the student said. But, for $10 an hour, "it's kind of just a job." A job that called for a putty knife and an adhesive remover called "un-du," which school officials discovered at a local crafts store.

The story is accompanied by pictures of people removing the stickers, if you want to see them. Consider the cost of buying the stickers, inserting them, defending them, and now removing them — all so that some parents wouldn't be offended over the fact that science classes teach the science of evolution rather than their religious beliefs.

The previous policy urged that evolution not be taught because it could be "inconsistent with family teachings." The school district as recently as 10 years ago cut out from science textbooks pages that involved evolution, according to court testimony.

Today, the policy is to actually teach evolution. What an amazing thought — science classes teaching science! It's a sad statement on the America and religion in America that this would be remotely controversial.

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