To Believe Or Not To Believe.

       It's not hard to visualize a time in America when a majority of people will believe that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. How else do you explain missing persons reports? A dragon ate them. Why do I say this? Because throughout the south, education is more and more inviting creationism into the classroom. Right alongside science. And in some cases there's an attempt to replace science. Especially with home schooling. That's a venue where, even if science is taught, mom or dad can laugh at science and poke fun at it. Those children will never believe anything other than that there is nothing that's older than about 7000 years of age.
       Now, there's nothing at all wrong with teaching creationism as a belief, a religious doctrine, but please don't confuse the issue. It ain't science, it ain't what actually happened. It's sorta like a metaphor. Like Jonah living in the belly of the whale. Maybe the lung, but not the belly.
       Even global warming is off limits for this kind of teaching. I suppose the day will come when folks in Florida, and Louisiana and places like that will need scuba gear to commute to school and places like Montana will be growing bananas and pineapples and raising native parrots. And the only orange groves will be in Alaska. Those sandy Florida beaches will be in fifty feet of water. They'll need a speedboat to ski in Colorado. But there'll still be no mention of Global Warming. 
       Now I suppose people should have the right to believe whatever they want. But, like I said, there's a difference between believing and science. And when the government is paying towards that education, it's science that needs to take the drivers seat. That's because creationism only has the ability to go into park.