 Updated 12/29/04  Artist's Statement  Thanks to last week’s
houseguest Aaron Long (“Well, Well, Well”) for his input on this
one. He and my friend Bill Dominick (who is prone to rants) and
I were discussing the efforts of various local school boards in
bumfuck states to get Creationism into high school curricula on
equal footing with actual science. I had recently read an
article about a battle over textbooks in Pennsylvania, in which
one school board member, an opponent of Inteligent Design, who
you would expect to be the voice of reason, gave the following
reason for her opposition: “When I hear ‘Intelligent Design,’ I
think aliens.” We despaired over the state of the average
American’s scientific literacy, currently at about the same
level as a twelfth-century European peasant’s. Aaron likened the
whole absurd and exasperating controversy to having to take
Grimm’s Fairy Tales as seriously as physics. I decided to change
his analogy to Norse Mythology because 1.) Grimm’s tales don’t
really have a creation