Indiana's clumsy attempt at theocracy

An edible FSM




Now that's a theory you can sink your teeth into.





  1. Not really the main point of your post, I know, but actually students *wouldn't* be taught about Xenu even if Scientology were taught in schools. Remember that that's supposed to be a secret; before the Internet era and the leaking of copyrighted "scriptures", only high ranking scientologists had access to that "information". Kind of the inverse of most religions where the rank-and-file believe in absurd miracles and the higher ups blithely claim that it's all sophisticated metaphors or something (at least while debating atheists).

  2. When I took AP Biology in high school, our teacher included a section on alternative hypotheses of the origin of life. These included alien visitations, microbe-containing meteorites colliding with Earth and, yes, divine design. While he may have been trying to placate the religious sensitivities of the community, I felt the presentation had the opposite effect. He did not try to disguise his opinion of the alternate hypotheses that he covered. Though he was a religious man personally, he didn't think much of the book of genesis as a scientific document and described its feasibility in the same terms as the idea that we were brought here as slaves by an extraterrestrial race to build the pyramids in Egypt.


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