I can't take credit for this, but I liked it so much that I must post it. The following is a great LTE printed in today's St Louis Post-Dispatch. I love satire and this is the best.
Biblical pandemic
The problem: a shortage of flu vaccine. The solution: Kansas.
Flu vaccines, as we know, are redesigned every year to fight mutated strains. "Why must they redesign those vaccines?" asks Kansas. "Flu viruses can't evolve. Evolution is just a theory." Kansas would be happy with last year's left-over vaccines. Kansas would be happy with a vaccine for the 1918 influenza epidemic. It's the same as the virus that Noah took with him on the Ark, isn't it?
If Kansas and other creationist states would take creationist vaccines, there would be plenty of real vaccines for the rest of us. By "real" vaccines, I mean vaccines designed by biologists who believe in evolution, just as real bridges are designed by engineers who believe in gravity.
Stephen Brown
O'Fallon, Ill.
Is anyone else as baffled as I am that our society is re-fighting old social battles that were settled decades or even centuries ago. I thought that the Evolution thing was settled in the 20's with the Scopes Monkey trial. Long settled issues like "separation of church and state, due process, privacy rights, civil rights, voting rights, torture and even the definition of human rights are being re-argued as if they were "controversial" instead of settled law. Am I crazy or is the world starting to look flat?