Arizona senator Sylvia Allen (R-District 5) is living proof that taking a basic college-level science course is not a prerequisite for becoming an Arizona senator. Senator Allen, who served as Vice President of the Arizona Chapter of the Eagle’s Forum for 10 years, perhaps received her science education from Phyllis Schlafly. Ms. Schlafly’s Eagle Forum web site contains an abundance of material on the evils of evolution and the TRUTH of “intelligent design” (codename creationism, codename 6 days = 6,000 years). I find it only fitting that senator Allen resides in Snowflake, Arizona, a community in the sun for all of Arizona’s flakes.