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Dawn has been amused to read that Georgia's Skool Superin-tendent has backed a plan to strike the word "evolution" from all textbooks and replace it with the phrase "biological changes over time."

The redaction is meant to placate the christian fundamentalist yahoos who populate Georgia, one of the Death Penalty Belt states. Of course, if "evolution" is to become a no-no, Georgia's "educational" system will need to make other changes, too. The reader who first sent Dawn the squib from Dixie suggested that physics classes will need to replace "gravity" with "things that fawl down and go boomboom." Dawn thinks that a bit silly. But clearly, geography students should not be indoctrinated with human secular references to the "globe"; flat earth science should be accorded the same respect granted creation science-- texts should instead speak of the "shape of the earth."

Dawn, somewhat a student of the history of evolutionary theory, notes, tho, that Darwin himself did not care for the word "evolution." He preferred "descent with modification," a phrase Dawn suspects the monkeybrains in Georgia would be even more uncomfortable with....