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[conuly]

Exam board contacts Jewish school over censored GCSEs

Questions on evolution were obscured in GCSE science exam papers at Yesodey Hatorah Senior girls' school in Hackney

http://tinyurl.com/k5z7vh2

The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party

http://theocracywatch.org/

You know, I've always wondered how on earth Roddenberry could have honestly made himself believe that humans would just ditch religion in the next few hundred years. It occurs to me that maybe he saw rising rates of secularism and thought naively that they would just continue on like that, never thinking that there might be people who really, really don't like it.

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Well, but remember the Eugenics Wars: Roddenberry's story never did presupppose that things just continued on getting more secular - the people who really, really don't like it were doubtless pretty-much wiped out in that era, probably still denying the Theory of Evolution and denouncing stem-cell research with their last dying breaths.

[conuly]

Yeah, but he kept on and on with the lack of religion even after the eugenics wars were effectively retconned by actual history.

And really, I'd think hugely devastating wars would be as likely to make super religious people as atheists.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Exactly; the super-religious people would naturally oppose the minions of Science, AKA Satan, and the minions of Science would nuke them from orbit: it's the only way to be sure.

Roddenberry died back in (*checking*) 1991, and the Eugenics Wars supposedly began in 1992. I've held right along, though, that when McCoy, Kirk and Spock went through the 'Guardian of Forever', even though Kirk stopped Bones from saving Edith Keeler and thus prevented the Nazis from winning WWII, they must have caused some other, more subtle 'Butterfly Effects'. They went back to a time-line that appeared to be the one they'd left, but... once they were there, would they have been aware of any discrepancies...?

The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that time travel is unfair, and how right they were.