Thursday, March 17, 2011

Texas Bill Would Outlaw Discrimination Against Creationists


Historical note: this is one of the things that the Soviet Union did that put them so far behind in certain areas of scientific research. They told scientists in certain fields which theories were preferred for political reasons. The best example was Lysenko's theory of genetics. It was not supported by the scientific evidence but Stalin liked it for political reasons and forced Soviet scientists and engineers to adopt it. This set soviet biology and agricultur­e back decades: http://en.­wikipedia.­org/wiki/L­ysenko_doc­trine
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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