Posted on 11/08/2005 4:10:06 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel
TOPEKA, Kan.-New science standards for Kansas' public schools, criticized for promoting creationism while treating evolution as a flawed theory, won approval Tuesday from the State Board of Education.
The board's 6-4 vote, expected for months, was a victory for intelligent design advocates who helped draft the standards and argued the changes would make teaching about evolution more balanced and expose studels teach science.
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In other news, the entire Dover PA school board was replaced by yesterday's election. And after all that hard work, the perjury and all.
"The people's children?"
It takes a village.
Not in the least. Government should not and was not intended to be in the business of building roads.
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Exactly right.
1+1=2. Sine and cosine exist for every angle and are factual numbers. Evolution is a theory. Big difference.
"The people's children?"
It takes a village.
You know, I ask myself where I've heard this line of reasoning before, i.e. that evolutionists or homosexuals or liberals or some such know best what's right for America's children and parent's should not have any say in how their own kids are being educated, and the only other thing I come up with is the fabulous new sex-ed rulings you hear from the 9'th circuit court in which kids are supposed to learn how to do it with chickens and pigs and ducks and what not and screw their parents for wanting to have any sort of a say in it.
In a democracy, parents DO have a right to have a say as to how their kids are being educated with their own tax dollars. If evolutionists don't like that, they need to find another country for themselves.
Who should pay for roads?
What's a "studel"?
"In a democracy, parents DO have a right to have a say as to how their kids are being educated with their own tax dollars"
Not according to the 9th Circus.
Huh?
Private companies, consortiums, private citizens. Internal improvements were not under the original intent of the national or state governments. Neither was federally funded education.
Totally unrealistic. Governments pay for roads with tax money. Why would private companies want to build roads? Should all roads become toll roads?
Definitions (from a google search). Hope these help:
Theory: a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; "theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses"; "true in fact and theory"
Hypothesis: a tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena; "a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory"; "he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices"
Law: a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"
Assumption: premise: a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play"
Observation: any information collected with the senses
Data: factual information, especially information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions
Fact: when an observation is confirmed repeatedly and by many independent and competent observers, it can become a fact
Belief: any cognitive content (perception) held as true; religious faith
Dogma: a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
Impression: a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying"
Not in the least. Worked for decades before the War. Most states even banned paying for internal improvements in the mid 19th century. Even after internal improvements became the standard fare, some companies did not use them. Take the Northern Pacific railroad, which unlike its sister company union Pacific, was not built off the government dole and remained solvent far longer than UP.
Secondly if it is totally unrealistic, let’s ban all toll roads. Their upkeep can be maintained merely off government monies. One of the greatest wastes of money was the national highway system built partially off the lie of national defense. I would have no problem paying a fee for a road that was built and maintained by private industry. It would have fewer potholes over time as it would be built better in the first place. Currently here in NC, we are dealing with a 2-3 mile stretch of I40 that was built less than a year ago that is going to be torn up and repaved. All off of government money
These are going into the archive's glossary section.
I am honored.
Considering the "fact" that the first humans came from Africa, there's more scientific proof of this "theory" than the "theory" of Evolution.
Dear blowfish:
Occam's rasor, a standard tool of both logic and science, would preclude such a ridiculous scenario. You are using a time-honored trick of sophistry known as "poisoning the well."
Not at all. They've already introduced mysticism into biology classes, and attempted to loosen the definition of what constitutes science to fit their theological goals. All I'm doing is slightly exaggerating their stance to include chemistry, to help illustrate how absurd their position is.
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