My Zen Arcade

Dear Dinesh,

What public highschools are assigning all these books on evolution???  I can easily see these showing up in college courses, but I can’t imagine that you’d be quite so concerned there.  I ask because those schools obviously have a very high academic bar and I’d like to send my kids there. 

When I was in high school, we spent perhaps a couple days on evolution at best, and I was in an advanced class.

I wonder, though…you never actually say that these quotes come from books in public high schools.  Just that these quotes exist in books that are assigned.  Are they assigned in biology classes?  Theology classes?  Private schools?  Public schools?  Colleges?  Adult Education classes?  Reading circles?

Of course these books rarely see it into the hands of ‘the children’.

But you must create fear or else you become irrelevant.

All my love,

j