(May 6, 2017 at 12:44 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: I was born in Washington D.C. and practically grew up in the Museum of Man and Natural History. Yet I never learned that the so called “missing link” was found in 1924. I speak of Australopithecus africanus, aka Southern Ape Man. This is said to be a direct ancestor of modern man. So why do we speak of the missing link as if it’s still missing?
Although Darwin expressed perplexity over the eye, scientists have since fully documented the evolution of the eye. Yet we allow theists to wave the eye before us as the bane of evolution.
Could it be because the textbooks in public schools are written in Texas, the buckle of the Bible belt, that cesspool of undigested lies, that our children remain ignorant of the advances of science?
Now that we have print-on-demand Tejas has lost it's death grip on school books. Whole chapters can be added or deleted and so on right down to single words.
