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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
 Posted - 02/23/2009 : 12:41:46
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I finished Monkey Girl, a book on the Dover trial.
In short, it's very well written and very entertaining despite the subject that some would think rather dry, and I highly recommend it.
What surprised me was how clearly cut the whole thing actually was.
Yes, I know the IDiots were the bad guys and the whole movement is a scam to overcome the law.
Yet, I thought that the people at the ground level were mostly mislead but sincere.
Not so much, in fact. Sure some of the board members, Angie Ziegler-Yingling in particular, were confused and too lazy to educate themselves on the subject they were voting on, but the real leaders of the movement, Buckingham and Bonsell, routinely lied, committed perjury, insulted people that disagreed with their agenda, and bullied teachers and other board members.
So, good reading, but, if you feel lazy, you can find the Nova program on the same subject here.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 02/23/2009 : 23:19:47 [Permalink]
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Thanks for the review. I agree, a couple of the Dover school board members were really nasty bastards. Bonsell in particular had once claimed he "watched with glee" as a student's stolen evolution painting was burned. And he clearly perjured himself at Dover.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2009 : 08:08:09 [Permalink]
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All of the board members (but the ones that resigned before the trial, obviously) perjured themselves, actually, about creationism never being mentioned.
But then, indeed, Bonsell and Buckingham did also lie about not knowing where the money and the books 'of Panda and people' came from.
I think it actually Buckingham that did the comment about watching the mural burning (prior to that, the official stance was that a lone custodian acted on his own behalf without the board's knowledge or approval).
That thing really offended me. This work was the result of a semester worth of hard work by a dedicated student and yet, the board had no qualm stealing and destroying it... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Monkey girl.
