Posted on 09/27/2002 5:59:21 AM PDT by Heartlander
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --A suburban Atlanta school board Thursday night voted unanimously to allow teachers to introduce students to different views about the origins of life, among them creationism.
The Cobb County Board of Education, the state's second-largest school board, approved the policy change after limited discussion, calling it a "necessary element of providing a balanced education."
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Vote out the 'rats! Long live the Republican Party, Liddy Dole, and whomever else it annointeth, now and forever, Amen!
OK, now!
It's not false. It happened. The coelacanth was considered to be prehistoric until it was found. It's a semantic point, not a scientific one -- although it illustrates the dangers of drawing definitive conclusions from the fossil record.
Can you give me an example of a walrus remain found in the same strata as that of a camel? I'll bite, although I can imagine some conditions where that could arise. Link please.
It's question to which I don't know the answer although my suspicion would be that it was "no."
Will look at it tonight. Hope you're having a nice weekend. :)
You too. :-)
It is clear some of them are here for a higher purpose: to restore Saturn to what they believe to be her rightful position: hovering over the Earth's North Pole.
;-)
BWAAAAHAHAHAHA! Will they be teaching that in Cobb County too?
Elect the RINO's!
That's a gross exaggeration. If you take qm and relativity each 10 orders of magnitude away from the region in which there's any experimental evidence for them, there will be modifications necessary to one or both theories. But, as of now, both theories reproduce experiment within experimental evidence in all cases. There is no experiment which one can do within the forseeable future for which qm and relativity predict observably different results.
In any case, you tried to do an end-run around the point. There are alternatives to qm and relativity out there. We don't teach them in high school. If you dispute this, name one high school that does. The pressure to teach 'alternatives' to evolution does not arise from a wish to be broad-minded in the teaching of science (a crazy idea anyway; funny to see self-described conservatives suddenly embracing 'inclusivity'). Rather, it's an intellectually dishonest attempt to introduce the peculiar beliefs of a very limited set of sects of Protestantism into public education.
I've suspected that medved's often-repeated allegations of drug dealing and the British royal family suggests a Lyndon LaRouche connection, as that is one of LaRouche's pet conspiracies. If my suspicion is warranted, medved would be sort of a melange of LaRouche and Velikovski influences. Not just one unappreciated genius, but two!
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Back to Roman Numerals 101 for you, young man!
88-89 was the New Years that had Berliners partying amid fireworks on the top of the Berlin Wall. I can still see some guy going to town with a sax up there. Knowing the town from my time there, 72-74, I couldn't watch the scene without continually wiping my eyes.
I have no idea who originally wrote this, but it betrays a deep historical ignorance. Formal scientific training as we know it simply didn't exist in the early 19th century; there was no such thing as a degree, say, in physics. Science itself was referred to as 'natural philosophy'.
Darwin, never a scientist and knowing nothing about the practicalities of genetics, then married his first cousin, which resulted in all seven of his children having physical or mental disorders.
Darwin knew no genetics because there was no genetics in the 1830s. Mendel had yet to publish his work. this is like criticizing Newton for failing to take into account relativistic corrections to planetary orbits.
Nowadays, we do know something about genetics. In particular, we know that first cousin marriages have very little additional risk of producing birth defects. To attribute the illnesses of Darwin's children to his marriage to a cousin is either dishonest or ignorant.
First cousin marriages are, by the way, legal in 26 of 50 states.
I could go on. But this is the sort of mendacious propaganda that is the creationists' only real mode of argument. It disturbs me that they call themselves conservatives; it repulses me they call themselves Christians. So much for not bearing false witness.
Hey, now that you mention it, under the Cobb County guidelines, wouldn't Math teachers be required to teach Algebra using Roman Numerals as an "alternative" to normal Algebra?
Somehow, I think things will get complicated when they start talking about "IV-degree polynomial equations" and it will be a real mess to calculate the coefficients of the terms in the product of polynomials.....
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