: Why it is necessary to understand the development of life through evolution and not religion #IndiaNEWS In 2008, the year I moved to the state, the Louisiana Science Education Act was passed with the

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Why it is necessary to understand the development of life through evolution and not religion #IndiaNEWS
In 2008, the year I moved to the state, the Louisiana Science Education Act was passed with the backing of the then governor, Bobby Jindal. The name of the law is misleading, as it allowed schools in Louisiana to teach the Biblical account of creation in science classes as an alternative to evolution.Jindal went as far as to say that local schools should determine how science is taught in classrooms. That meant that if the local public school’s science teacher wanted to teach that all living land animals were the descendants of creatures carried on Noah’s Ark, then well, that was just fine with the governor and the supporters of the law. At the time, I presumed that Bobby Jindal (born Piyush Jindal) was probably a smart person who was somehow misled. I jokingly called him “my uncle Bobby� because as an Indian person I could claim all other Indians as kin, and maybe saying the governor was a relative could get me out of a speeding ticket (it couldn’t). My Uncle Bobby should have known better than to pass anti-evolution legislation. He was, after all, someone who held a Biology degree from Brown University and a Rhodes Scholar (but going to an...Read more

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