The Observer: US schools ban Darwin from class

Published by Colin on 24th February 2002.

Farewell Darwin: a recent survey has revealed that the doctrine of creationism is spreading in the US at an alarming rate, attempting, and succeeding at, the elimination of evolutionary biology from the curriculum.

I love this argument using bananas as evidence: convenient for handling, with a tab for wrapper-removal, a pleasing taste, and an obvious skin-blackening sell-by-date mechanism.

What do they make of oranges that end up spitting in your eye half the time or nuts that require heavy force for opening? Challenges from god?