Posted on 07/11/2008 4:06:06 AM PDT by Soliton
Louisiana is another story. A hub of creationist activism since the early 1980s, it was Louisiana that enacted the Balanced Treatment Act, which required that creationism be taught alongside evolution in schools. In a landmark 1987 case known as Edwards vs Aguillard, the US Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional, effectively closing the door on teaching "creation science" in public schools. ID was invented soon afterwards as a way of proffering creationist concepts without specific reference to God.
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I did not say this. I have never said that it is inappropriate to consider God in a science class. Please provide a link.
In fact, I did include a discussion of God in my lessons with my children about the natural world. There are many parents who want this for their children. To force a godless approach to science upon them is disrespectful and intolerant of their religion, culture, and beliefs.
How can I defend a strawman argument of your creation?
Surely this is not what you mean?
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I did not say this. Thoughtful readers will clearly see that.
Most government teachers have B.S. or masters degrees. This would qualify them to be technicians. They would be doing the grunt work and bottle washing for those with Ph.D.s.
Whether or not government teachers with B.S. or master degrees could be accepted into a Ph.D. program would depend upon the competitiveness of their college, their GRE scores, grades, and recommendations from their professors. As a group, teachers are not known for having stellar GRE scores.
As for those few government teachers with Ph.D.s in the sciences whether or not they could get a research position in industry, in an research institute, or a university would depend on:
* The competitiveness and quality of their university program.
* The topic and quality of their thesis.
* Recommendations from their professors.
* Whether or not they were able to have their thesis published in a reputable and peer reviewed journal.
* The quality of the research done in any post-doc programs and whether or not this research was published.
* Bags full of good luck.
Like everything else you post, that's not necessarily true, as those of us who have worked in research and industry already know.
This is not an especially helpful site. For instance the description of “Chemistry Professor” fails to give the educational requirements needed for the job.
If you’ll look a bit further, there are actual vacant jobs posted, with actual job descriptions and educational requirements.
Oh... And please remember that while technicians assist scientists with the lab duties and experiments they are merely the grunt workers. Technicians work under supervision of the scientist who plans experiments and directs all the work and has full responsibility for the lab and its output.
That should read: Background.
Thoughtful FReepers are able to go to the web page and judge for themselves.
By the way, Your Arrogance, technicians generally have at most an associate degree in chemistry.
That makes order taking technicians not research scientists.
I think they should teach more about evolutionism in schools, specifically the history of evolutionism. That would be new to a lot of people.
An excellent arrangement of information.
The laboratory’s budget officer actually has total control of all of that stuff. The scientists merely give it names.
The judge's understanding of biology was also questionable ~ really strange decision in fact.
Ah, I see where you are coming from. Your view seems to be that unless the glory of God is mentioned in every single subject in school (even phys ed anbd shop class?) at all times, the school is "godless."
Is my desk godless because the Lord's Prayer isn't inscribed on its surface? Is McDonald's godless because the employees don't say grace before giving you your Big Mac? Is my financial advisor godless because he talks about my stock portfolio when I call him, rather than the Semon on the Mount?
Or could it be that teachers want to teach math and biology and spelling without getting bogged down in religious arguments?
The First Amendment does not apply to most or some of the people. It applies to **all** of the people (especially the minority).
A school not teaching relgion to its students isn't a violation of the students' 1st Amendment rights. The government is not required to talk about religions, it's only required not to impinge on your right to believe as you see fit. You seem to believe that the 1st Amendment gives you the right to demand that other people talk about your religion. That's certainly a... novel.... view of the 1st Amendment.
Government schools promote a godless religious worldview. They never were, are not now, and never can be religiously neutral. It is impossible.
Nonsense. If public schools don't talk about religion, that is the essence of religious neutrality. Secular schools should not take a position, one way or the other, on the existence of any deities.
The solution to the thousands of utterly irresolvable philosophical conflicts is to privatize universal K-12 education.
This has very, very little appeal to Americans. I assume you are aware of that.
Most government teachers have B.S. or masters degrees. This would qualify them to be technicians. They would be doing the grunt work and bottle washing for those with Ph.D.s.
This is what's known as "moving the goalposts."
Are you convincedas much that the Word of God in unfallible?
Actually Mendel's studies predicted that, and he lived before Darwin.
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