Above is a picture of Anderson and Aunt Diana reading that masterpiece "The Cat in the Hat". He was a little boy way back then ...
Time flies. It seems like just yesterday that Anderson was cooing and spitting up.
Uh ... actually it was just yesterday. And today as well. Things aren't measurably different, really, but it's always nice to have a reason to celebrate. So he's now 3 months old!
Good thing he's going to be growing up in Texas schools, where he'll be given a fine science education. And by fine science education, it appears Anderson will be learning that evolution is a theory that holds equal footing with "intelligent design". We can call it what it really is, which is creationism.
It seems that a former appointee of then Governor Bush still in works in some capacity for Texas science education. It seems that this former appointee believes in creationism herself and feels that evolution is unestablished and should be balanced by "intelligent design". In fact, the unwritten policy was to not really bring up evolution or intelligent design and debate it. Unfortunately, Chris Comer, the head of the science curriculum for the last 9 years, didn't heed this warning and posted an anti-intelligent design email to a forum.
She is now the former head of the science curriculum as she was summarily forced to resign for this. Here's the link for more on the story.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/06/1206science.html
I don't think the concept of evolution is debatable, although some people get upset when it gets applied to humans. But the idea that a science class is supposed to balance it with something that has no scientific support whatsoever?
Embarrassing.
Here's Anderson - future scientist who will learn that Earth is flat and is the center of the universe - on his 3 month birthday.
