Trustee's wife spreads the same tired agenda

First we have to tolerate Mike Dunn's unprofessional, troublemaking tactics on our kids' school board, and now we Acorn readers get to hear from his wife pushing the same agenda: religion in the public schools.

It is so simple: Creationism is religion. Religion takes place in church. Evolution is science. Science takes place at school. Why the confusion, Mrs. Dunn?

Before I began writing, I couldn't decide if I should challenge the "Evolution is theory" absurdity or Mrs. Dunn's Bushesque divisive, polarized "us versus them" (Republicans versus Democrats, liberals versus conservatives, believers versus nonbelievers, etc.) mentality, so I'm going to do both: Evolution (even across species) is as much a "theory" as gravity is, and the whole "secular humanists" versus the "believers" contest- seriously, enough already.

The divide and conquer "strategery" did not work for the Bush administration, it did not work for Mike Dunn during his reelection in his desperate, slanderous attempts to rid the CVUSD school board of the "secular humanist" liberals, and it will not work in the Conejo Valley with the issue of evolution versus creationism where most residents are sensible enough to clearly see how silly this whole issue truly is in the first place.

I also find it somewhat hypocritical of Mrs. Dunn to suggest that creationism be taught in science class alongside evolution so that the kids can "think for themselves and make up their own minds" when evolution would never be discussed in church and children who attend Sunday services are not exactly encouraged to question, critically think or challenge multiple "theories" of anything.

Furthermore, if Mrs. Dunn had a little more "faith" in her own beliefs, she would be much more secure to let public school science teachers do their job and teach evolution as scientific fact and allow this prosaic "debate" to rest in peace once and for all. Tina Sandoval Thousand Oaks