It's really kind of sad. Kids at those ages only know what they've been told in school. If we had never learned about evolution, we probably wouldn't know much about it today. So in 10 years when they're in college or whatever, they're really going to think someone waved a magic wand and created the world.
On the upside, Democrats won elections in Virginia and New Jersey. (NJ is no huge surprised, but VA was.) So maybe people are finally wising up...
I don't think people are wising up, there just isn't enough bullshit that the republicans can say right now that sounds good when we have over 2000 dead in Iraq among other things.
"In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena."
I think this is what bothered me the most actually.
As far as I'm concerned, if they are going to teach intelligent design then they need to also teach every creation story ever passed down in every culture and allow the students to decide from all of it what they think is most plausible. That and mention the fact that the only real evidence is for evolution.
In PA the voted out the school board members there. The ones replaced had voted recently to force teaching of ID and to give a warning before talking about evolution about how it is just a theory and that there are serious problems with it. That school board ruling is being sued in court, but it will be overturned by the new school board members voted in. At least one town woke up and did something about it. Too bad they are probably all dumb rednecks in Kansas and won't do the same.
Did you notice how it is always mentioned how there are serious problems with evolution and yet noone ever says what they are. I would be curious to hear what people consider these problems to be beside the lack of god in the equation.
Exactly, they don't have any, because no scientist is arguing against evolution. This is just conservative rednecks trying to impose their political beliefs by making people who are too stupid to realize otherwise believe there is some kind of controversy in the scientific community. If I were a student, and some teacher started spouting this bullshit, I'd have to piss on their face and shit on their desk.
"In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena."
I was just thinking about this line again. I took a class called History of Experimental Biology and you should read the text for the course. It's really short--the teacher who started the class here basically just combined his lectures into a book and put it out. It just goes through how we got to where we are now starting with the first "medical procedures" (trephination). It's really amusing when they talk about stuff like how when people got really into investigating ghosts and the idea of ectoplasm came out and stuff like that. I read the above and I just think of all the ridiculous things that people used to think were real b/c of the fact that people believed that science was not "limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena."
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On the upside, Democrats won elections in Virginia and New Jersey. (NJ is no huge surprised, but VA was.) So maybe people are finally wising up...
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I think this is what bothered me the most actually.
As far as I'm concerned, if they are going to teach intelligent design then they need to also teach every creation story ever passed down in every culture and allow the students to decide from all of it what they think is most plausible. That and mention the fact that the only real evidence is for evolution.
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I was just thinking about this line again. I took a class called History of Experimental Biology and you should read the text for the course. It's really short--the teacher who started the class here basically just combined his lectures into a book and put it out. It just goes through how we got to where we are now starting with the first "medical procedures" (trephination). It's really amusing when they talk about stuff like how when people got really into investigating ghosts and the idea of ectoplasm came out and stuff like that. I read the above and I just think of all the ridiculous things that people used to think were real b/c of the fact that people believed that science was not "limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena."
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