Bush science is dangerous slope

An article with the above title appeared on August 18, 2005 in Indian Country Today. Full text can be found here.

The article is very well done, browsing through their editorial report section is a good read.

Here is the first paragraph and some excerpts:

The level of distortion of science is becoming quite high. The game of pushing a Christian agenda through public institutions is both terribly disingenuous and yet front and center. President Bush is seemingly sincere that his religious conversion and perspective is the right one. His born-again experience is public knowledge, as is his policy of breaking the barriers to religious influence in governmental programs. In Bush, the evangelical political movement got just the partner it wanted in the Oval Office.

... No one can doubt that evolutionary science is complicated and at times difficult to absorb, given its calculus of biological changes and developments played out over vast stretches of time...

In the context of creation stories, again, there are many from this hemisphere that are quite compelling. Just the wonderful narrative that names North America the great Turtle Island, from the eastern woodlands, proposes that the first human being was actually a pregnant female who fell from the Skyworld. The teachings of that story in the context of humans and the natural world are worth considering in these ecologically treacherous times.

Indian Country Today Columnist John Mohawk this year published a succinctly edited book, ''Iroquois Creation Story: Myth of the Earthgrasper,'' which inspires with its clarity from ancient America. In fact, the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) creation story is the living basis of the ceremonial cycles in the longhouses of several reservations, source of origin and the truth of existence for traditional Haudenosaunee. Yet, no one here is suggesting that it be taught as ''science'' in the public schools.