American Voices

Georgia's Evolution Stickers

January 19, 2005 | ISSUE 41•03

Last week, a U.S. district judge ordered a Georgia school district to remove stickers reading, "Evolution is a theory, not a fact" from its textbooks. What do you think?

  • The thing is, they're right. Evolution is nothing more than a well-supported, predictive, scientifically rigorous theory.

    Jered Garza
    Driver

  • If you don't believe in creationism, then how do you explain the fact that I do, smart guy?

    Carlton Fuller
    Teacher

  • Good. Now could New York please take the sticker off my literature textbook that says Surrealism is just a school of thought often in conflict with Abstractism?

    Melanie Burton
    Systems Analyst

  • Maybe now a judge will press Georgia schools to remove the 'Mr. Yuk' stickers from books by black authors.

    Susan McKinney
    Painter

  • Man, I gotta get one of those stickers for my guitar case. That'd be awesome.

    Danny Hale
    Plumber

  • I hope they replaced the old stickers with new ones that read, 'Do not burn.'

    Brad Dawson
    Novelist

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