The UK government puts its faith in the Loch Ness monster
(For New Labour, no more we shall meet…)
Fucking morons:
“Exams for which pupils are expected to believe that the Loch Ness monster disproves evolution have been deemed equivalent to international A-levels by a UK government agency. The National Recognition Information Centre (Naric) in Cheltenham, which advises universities and employers on the rigour of lesser-known qualifications, has ruled that the International Certificate of Christian Education (ICCE) is comparable to courses such as international A-levels.”
By the way, when I say ‘fucking morons’, I mean, of course, those dickheads working for the National Recognition Information Centre.
Not that I think the people behind the Certificate of Christian Education come from the most sparkling side of the gene pool. Believing the Loch Ness monster disproves evolution is right there with thinking that a cow’s udders disprove human tits.
Still, it’s one thing for churches to believe in various bits of nonsense – from prophet swallowing whales to elephant-headed Gods, und so weiter – but quite another for a national educational agency to pander to the Loch Ness crowd.
You expect certain types of psychiatric patients to hear voices that inform them that the Eiffel tower is an alien insect. What you don’t expect is for their doctors to buy them huge canisters of alien insect powder.
Ah well. It’s more or less as Jesus said: ‘The poor imbeciles will always be with us.’
By the way, this government approved text book also states that
“apartheid helped South Africa because segregated schools “made it possible for each group to maintain and pass on their culture and heritage to their children.””
Yes, and those second world war concentration camps did wonders for the Jewish culture and heritage, I suppose – but enough of this unseemly nonsense. All in all, it’s just another, not much needed reminder that New Labour has moved too far into an evolutionary cul de sac to ever hope to get back to being a sane political party. It has become one of those self-destructive cults, that’s eying the Kool-Aid with feverish anticipation.
In fact, it’s far easier to see Gordon Brown riding a dodo and shouting “Nessie, come home!” than to see him win next year’s election.
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