{"id":276727,"date":"2010-02-04T09:32:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10922"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:32:34","slug":"this-will-end-well-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/276727","title":{"rendered":"This will end well | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2010\/01\/30\/Tenn-approves-guidelines-for-Bible-class\/UPI-73111264828513\/\">&#8220;Tennessee high schools will be getting guidelines from the state next fall on teaching the Bible as part of a secular curriculum&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a comparative literature class. Yes, it&#8217;s legal. Yes, I would even approve of this&#8230; in theory. In practice? <\/p>\n<p>Right. Read the title of this post again.<\/p>\n<p>Still, in better news, you may remember the Mississippi anti-evolution bill <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/01\/19\/mississippi-dips-its-toe-into-antireality\/\">I wrote about<\/a>, submitted to the legislature there as an obvious wedge for creationism. Well, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2010\/02\/antievolution-bill-mississippi-dies-005309\">it died in committee<\/a>, so the Magnolia State gets itself a reprieve. I&#8217;m glad; I didn&#8217;t have a &#8220;Mississippi: Doomed&#8221; graphic ready yet. But I&#8217;ll keep the draft waiting just in case.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tip o&#8217; the coming ACLU lawsuit to <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/cgi\/comments.pl?IDLink=4983962\">Fark<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/aP4qUrh7DBcgdCPIvJlMa9lCqzc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/aP4qUrh7DBcgdCPIvJlMa9lCqzc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/aP4qUrh7DBcgdCPIvJlMa9lCqzc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/aP4qUrh7DBcgdCPIvJlMa9lCqzc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/7kRGgzTK3ds\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/kBNQuT7YLe0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tennessee high schools will be getting guidelines from the state next fall on teaching the Bible as part of a secular curriculum&#8221;. Yes, it&#8217;s a comparative literature class. Yes, it&#8217;s legal. Yes, I would even approve of this&#8230; in theory. In practice? Right. Read the title of this post again. Still, in better news, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}