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Unintelligent design and your inner fish

There is something that troubles me deeply — fortunately it does not seem to have hit Australia yet. In more and more American communities (to take a well-known example), schools are being pressured from both outside and within to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution within the science classroom. Proponents of intelligent design [...]

So you suck at mathematics — Good on you!

Does thinking about mathematics terrify you? Evoke images of board after board filled with a seething mass of meaningless scrawlings? Or does it simply not pique even the tiniest morsel of interest for you in your busy life, which is devoid of any necessity for mathematics?

Many people would answer yes to some of these questions [...]

Don’t ask, don’t teach: Gay teachers in schools

Homosexual teachers and supporters are promoting dangerous ideals in classrooms today, telling students that it’s okay to be gay. They are ruining the innocence of our children, who shouldn’t be exposed to such disgusting and wrong behaviour. Some even suggest amending sex education to be relevant to gay children! More so, homosexual teachers are ostentatious [...]