Don't get your panties in a knot.

So this evening I read an interesting blog post by, Vince Leibowitz, Capitol Annex’s daily publication’s supervising Editor & Publisher. The article was criticizing SBOE Chair Don McLeroy for “endorsing a new book calling those who support the teaching of evolution, including more than 11,000 members of the clergy, “atheists,” “monsters,” and “morons.”” The book, Sowing Atheism: The National Academy of Sciences’ Sinister Scheme to Teach Our Children They’re Descended from Reptiles, from my point of view, is coming from a biblical stand point. With that said, some of the “offensive insults”, for instance, “Regarding parents who support teaching their children about evolution: What kind of monster parents teach their children that they’re descended from rodents and reptiles?” might not be as offensive as everyone is making them to be. I believe the author is just fed up with all the “hypocritical Christian” parents, calling them, hypocritical Christian” parents, the “monsters” because they think that they can believe in Christianity and evolution, when the two should and can never be combined, if you are a “true Christian” and understand exactly what the Bible teaches. Although I agree with what the book teaches, as far as the principal of not being able to call yourself a “Christian” and believe in evolution, I do not think this book should be used as a school biology book. Instead of having a book simply stating opinions of what one author thinks about people calling themselves Christians and teaching evolution, we should have a book that digs deeper into the background of creationism to help further the views of creation vs. evolution. If this is the reason for criticizing SBOE Chair Don McLeroy for endorsing the new book, strictly because it is not an educative book for furthering creationism, then more power to the criticizers. However, they should not criticize him for viewing the book as being educational toward people who believe you can be a Christian and support evolution, because this book, as far as I can see, is doing a good job of that.