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
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.
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”.
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
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.
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 wonder how many Republicans actually want to stop the teaching of evolution.
I think these arguments among Conservatives are silly. They are not productive in any way that I can see other than to divide. Let the parent decide what they want their child taught or not taught. It is just that simple.
My thinking is that evolution theory is rather meaningless to the bottom line so what a student knows or doesn’t know about it will not matter. I think many people are turned off because much of this complex theory is guesstimating and active imagination, that is, those parts which the average person thinks of as Evolution. In the end, to me, it just doesn’t matter. Here are the some of the greatest scientific discoveries and not one hangs on evolution theory save one; The Origin of Species: http://encarta.msn.com/column_scientificdiscoveries_tamimhome/10_Great_Scientific_Discoveries.html
This is the same guy who continues to hold that the Shroud of Turin is a medieval artifact, denying the overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary from multiple disciplines (remember, "confidence comes from consilience").
And it is people like Schafersman who will be leading the charge to link "conservatives" to "anti science irrationalists" -- you know, like Matt Damon's comments about Sarah Palin.
But the îber-libertarian types seem to think that almost anything else a person things or does, is irrelevant to public office -- only religious faith need disqualify them.
Go figure.
Cheers!
“Was The Enlightenment in vain?”
IMO - Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design are forms of fundamentalist Protestant apologetics. The idea that the Enlightenment is the source of modern science originated from Protestant apologetics. So I’d say the answer to your question is no.
Does anyone have the pro-science ping list PatrickHenry used to have?
The problem is that if such baboomery is adopted in Texas, it will be in all the nation’s text books. Plus, the company that evaluates textbooks is run by an elderly YEC, biblical literalist who has no problem injecting his religious views into his evaluations. If this goes through, Texas will become one fucked up state with respect to education. And all in the name of keeping kids stupid for the sake of a minority deviation from Christianity and Islam.
Uh-huh...any thinking person understands that evolutionists project. That’s what you do, because most creationists I see are for teaching BOTH, and as I’ve said the facts (that would be the multiple lawsuits excluding anything other than the cult of evolution), speak for themselves.
You’ve left your dishonest self hanging out here like a big fat sore thumb again coytoteman.