There they go again
The New York Times, picking up on a story first reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education, reports that the U.S. Department of Education has quietly removed evolutionary biology as an "approved major" on which federal student aid money may be spent.
This has all the hallmarks of a classic stealth attack by Christian Rightists embedded in the national government since the advent of George W. Bush in 2000. There was no public notice of the change and it probably wouldn't have come to light if a concerned mid-level bureaucrat in the agency hadn't quietly alerted people on the outside, who went to the media with the story. I salute the courage of whoever did that, because people in the Bush Administration are probably looking for him or her even as we speak. It is a fundamental tenet of the Bush religious base that the theory of evolution--proven six ways to Sunday by real scientists--is wrong.
Of course, the Department of Education now claims it was just a "clerical error," but if you believe that, you probably also believe in the 6000-year-old Earth and that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction at the time the Bush Administration invaded Iraq. And remember folks, we have 2 1/2 more years of this.