Posted on 01/19/2009 9:42:35 PM PST by Coyoteman
The new Earth and Space Science (ESS) course standards (and all other science course standards) will be up for approval before the State Board of Education (SBOE) during January 21-23. Some SBOE members--the seven who are Young Earth Creationists (YECs)--will attempt to make changes to the ESS standards in ways that will damage the scientific integrity and accuracy of the course. In particular, these SBOE members will try to negatively modify or delete the standards that require students to understand the following topics that deal with scientific topics they consider controversial: age of the Earth and universe, radiometric dating, evolution of fossil life, and the origin of life by abiotic chemical processes. These topics are the ones that YECs consider to be controversial; indeed, they are obsessed with them to the exclusion of everything else.
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Get ready for the Flat Earth geology class and the geocentric astronomy class.
The good news for students is that they get to watch the Flintstones in biology class.
Public schools should not exist
On another note, after chemistry class, we're going to give equal time to alchemy.
Then, after astronomy class, we're going to give equal time to astrology to demonstrate the 'weaknesses' of astronomy.
There is little accuracy in these textbooks anyway
Then, after astronomy class, we're going to give equal time to astrology to demonstrate the 'weaknesses' of astronomy.
They want their religious beliefs taught in these classes!
And that's because they can't get them taught instead of science classes. But they're working on it.
Some people will read whatever they want to into scripture. Is there any GOP official who will renounce these nuts? At the same time, take those who obsess over who is smoking what, who is sleeping with who, and those who expand the definition of being pro-life beyond being in favor of giving every child in the womb a chance at life, with them.
1. Teach my child throughout his 12 years of public education science based on the Young Earth Creationist Theory.
2. Teach my child throughout his 12 years of public education science based on the scientific method.
Just ram it down their throats and make them feel like a fool if they question anything they are taught. That’s what good teaching is all about, right?
This is crap. Of course these people are wackos but you know what— when they something stupid the left and the media love to pile on them like they’re morons.
But they’re not so diff’t from Algore, NBC, and the left with their global warming “science”.
and those who expand the definition of being pro-life beyond being in favor of giving every child in the womb a chance at life
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.— Charles Darwin
Here are a couple of quotes for you:
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Proverbs 26:12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
By the way, how confident are you in Darwinian evolution being the way everything came about? So confident that a dissenting voice might upset the whole apple cart?
I think that the problem of teaching pseudoscience or superstition in science classes is less than the problem of simply not teaching key science. Take, for instance, evolution. Penn State Professor Michael Berkman finds that a majority of biology teachers either mention evolution for 2 hours max in a year’s classwork, or not at all. For my own part, I had three years of biology in high school and never heard mention of evolution. They didn’t give us creationist stuff, either: the teachers just didn’t talk about the origin of life or species at all. The result was that high school biology was my least favorite science: it was all just a lot of unorganized facts: frog / pig / cat muscles to memorize thoughtlessly. Loved physics and my 2 years of chemistry.
Also: if you or anyone else has a ping list for the pro-science side, would you kindly add me? I appreciate these posts.
Those who expand the definition of being pro-life beyond being in favor of giving every child in the womb a chance at life are akin to the nuts who want to intrude on science education. Having them around gives the MSM a chance to link the conservatives and Christians to them. They go too far but are convinced they are right and everyone else is wrong.
As we currently see things, there would appear to be no absolute final answers in empirical science, and any scientist who deserves the name will always admit the possibility that future evidence might force the modification of current views. With that said, Darwinian evolution (with suitable additions and modifications as biologists deem necessary) is our current best idea of what our planet’s biome has undergone over the last several billion years. We’re not yet able to give a persuasive and evidentially supported account of how life first got started, but that’s what makes continued exploration interesting: there are still things to try to find out.
It is very difficult to wend one’s way between Creationists and climate warmists:
“Left out are rocks and minerals, ... geologic periods, ... weather, ... galaxies and ... stars, …. Instead, we included a great deal about climate and climate change, … energy resources, …, fossil fuels, .. Emphasized … space imagery and … GPS, personal computers, and the Internet. … (meteorologists probably won’t like it, but climatologists will love it!).”
Keep in mind taxpayers are funding this.
The percentage of families home schooling their children will incress.
The percentage of families sending their children to church schools will increase.
I am as confident in Darwin as I am in Newton as the thinker whose theories best explain the available evidence. Both have seen their work added to and modified, though not rejected outright, by new-found evidence and improved observation.
So confident that a dissenting voice might upset the whole apple cart?
No one is closing churches. There are no SWAT teams massing outside the Discovery Institute. Flat Earthers, Young Earth creationists, UFOlogists, all are welcome to spin their hypotheses. They do not have a right to promote them in public schools.
If you want to change the scientific consensus, the place to start is in science -- in the lab, not the classroom. The push to get creationism/ID into high school biology is like trying to teach kids in driver's ed how to drive a hydrogen fuel cell car instead of focusing on building one.
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