PZ Myers said:

That's number one in my collection of good science teaching aphorisms: "How do you know that?" is always a smart question. Brownback is a conservative Republican politician with a poor reputation for intelligence—I don't quite see him reading Valentine's Origin of Phyla in his spare time. Where did he get these peculiar and erroneous ideas about evolution? It can probably be traced back to his ministers or parents…were they evolutionary biologists? As I mentioned yesterday, Kent Hovind's background reveals no familiarity with even elementary science, yet he brags about being a science teacher, ...

PZ Myers said:

That's number one in my collection of good science teaching aphorisms: "How do you know that?" is always a smart question. Brownback is a conservative Republican politician with a poor reputation for intelligence—I don't quite see him reading Valentine's Origin of Phyla in his spare time. Where did he get these peculiar and erroneous ideas about evolution? It can probably be traced back to his ministers or parents…were they evolutionary biologists? As I mentioned yesterday, Kent Hovind's background reveals no familiarity with even elementary science, yet he brags about being a science teacher, and many people cite him as the source of their "facts" about evolution.

Interesting side note... when I graduated with a degree in Asian Studies and Comparative Religion, (my focous was Islamic Terrorism and East Asia, and I know comparatively little about Christianity) I got an interesting set of offers:

1. CIA (not the state department job I was hoping for)

2. Teach Science, History and a number of other unrelated subjects in Christian high schools. (As far as I know they sent this offer to all those who graduated from the Comparative Religion program, without doing to much research into what the individuals believed... not that they are particularly good at research...)

3. Teaching English and Culture in China

And voila! Here I am in 100 degree Beijing! A...

Interesting side note... when I graduated with a degree in Asian Studies and Comparative Religion, (my focous was Islamic Terrorism and East Asia, and I know comparatively little about Christianity) I got an interesting set of offers:

1. CIA (not the state department job I was hoping for)

2. Teach Science, History and a number of other unrelated subjects in Christian high schools. (As far as I know they sent this offer to all those who graduated from the Comparative Religion program, without doing to much research into what the individuals believed... not that they are particularly good at research...)

3. Teaching English and Culture in China

And voila! Here I am in 100 degree Beijing! Although I was always tempted to say yes to the offer to teach in the Christian High School, I'm sure that would have just become another job that I got fired from after a couple of weeks!