Other than my concern that Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome may eventually overtake depression as the leading global mental health problem, Richard Gayle's blog today on evolution tops my list of memes that deserve repeating.

We again have people rejecting textbooks because the books discuss evolution but not creationism. Evolution is a fact. It is the foundation upon which modern biology rests. Trying to pretend differently (as one of the Board members said "I do not believe that we evolved from anything other than human beings") only hurts the students and furthers ignorance. It does not reflect well on Tennessee. But then it was the state that outlawed the teaching of evolution, leading to the Scopes Trial.