Remember how I told people to Vote "no" on Bill Wenmark, the creationist school board member in the Minnetonka school district? Well, you did. Or at least that subset of you eligible to vote in that local election did. Bill Wenmark is out, and good people have been elected. The last vestiges of Intelligent Design creationism have been, ahem, expelled from one school district.
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Bill Wenmark, a member of the Minnetonka School Board who supports the teaching of Intelligent Design in High School Cirriculum was ousted in yesterday's election.
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I'm sure some other creationist whack-jobs got elected to the school boards under the radar, though.
That's in Wisconsin, right?
Isn't that the place that makes my moccasins?
Minnetonka is where Tonka toys used to be based.
Yay! My parents' high school is safe(r) for science.
No real good place for this, so will drop it here.
Scot Adams admits he isn't a creationist idiot, but just plays one on the internet:
http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2007/11/solip…
Minnetonka is where Tonka toys used to be based.
Just the kind of little factoid my spongy brain loves. Thanks, Robin, I'd actually long wondered about the origins of the name of some of my favourite childhood toys.
Actually, the toys are named after the lake Minnetonka, not the city, and the company was started in Mound, MN, which is in a different school district than the one we're talking about here. And all of this involves locations that are very much not. in. Wisconsin.
Dammit.
I grew up in Minnetonka and as a young man worked for the City of Minnetonka in the Park Department.
Now I am in California.
Intelligent design is threatening to the host of this bb not because of religion but because there is a design issue in biology that remains unanswered. That's the area of my study--and it involves electrics.