(Found at atrios.blogspot.com) http://www.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/09/26/creationism.evolution/index.html See, because, teachers should be able to teach non-scientific science. Note the Cobb County genius who is overthrowing a hundred years of scientific research in one term paper: The board's decision pleased Michael Gray, a Cobb high school junior. "I had to do a term paper about evolution and there were just things that I could disprove or have alternate reasons for," Gray told The Associated Press. "I want my brother and sister to be given the option and not told it's the absolute truth." Well, kid, the Nobel Prize you'll get for your research should come in handy. You are doing research, right? You will be submitting your work to peer review? And no, Uncle Jesse swilling down the shine on his way to bail out Vance and Coy doesn't count as peer review. Ass clowns. EDIT: Here are some suggested theories from one blogger: http://www.felbers.net/blogger.html#82170119
"A suburban Atlanta school board Thursday night voted unanimously to allow teachers to introduce students to different views about the origins of life." Loney, why do you hate democracy? Why?
This is great. That's why I'm getting out of this state as soon as possible.. To be fair, a good portion of evloutionary theory is bunk, jsut becuase they're making rash assumptions using a couple of skeletons. Still, there's alt least a method to the madness. That's why it's called science. Not because we found some scrolls in a desert. The best part is, even if evolution is completely wrong, why does "creation science" becoem assumed to have any merit on its own terms. Why isn't it askedto produce some ind of proof before we waste time with the endeavor? Like it or not, an understanding of evolution is necessary to, say, become a doctor in this day and age. Creationism is not. Loney would have loved the radio news story that I heard this afternoon from one of the supporters say that this would allow the students to understand where they came from and "what would happen to them when they die." What does that have to do with the origin of the universe and the species??
Yes it will. Just as the "earth is flat" fight ended. Just as the "universe revolves around the earth fight" ended. And it will end with the giggling of our decendents at idiots.
Well, since they are going to be re-writing textbooks with alternative theories of evolution anyway. I say it is now time that we force them to make the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" required reading during the evolution unit. In that book the renowned scientist Douglas Adams put forward the theory that the Earth was created by an alien-species of super intelligent lab mice. What they did was construct this planet with the dinosaur bones already embedded in the soil to fool us into thinking that we actually evolved. They were so diabolical that they even made sure all our carbon-14 radioactive dating tests would give plausible but incorrect answers. Let's start a petition and force our school boards to teach that and make it a three way race: "Evolution vs. Creationism vs. Douglas Adam-ism" (I think Adams could also be used in the unit on physics and astronomy. This is called the literal interpretation of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
is this the same democracy that didn't allow women to vote till the early 20th century? or the same that didn't allow blacks equal rights till the 60s? hmmm.... democracies can be funked up sometimes
If they want to teach that evolution isn't a fact that's fine (isn't most of science theory not fact). I am not sure why you would have to vote on this. But if Adam & Eve appear on an exam I would want a tax refund.
All scientific thought is theory. If creationists want to desecrate their beliefs by subjegating them into the context of theory and the rigors of scientific review and skeptism then more power to them. Good luck explaining how Noah can squish all the many varieties of animal species into a wood boat.
I vote to repeal the second law of thermodynamics and also Einstein's theory of relativity. Who's with me?
Short of rapture( I hope I'm chosen) or the invention of a magic time machine, the principles of macro evolution cannot be proven in a lab to shut the creationist up once and for all. Bring up radio carbon dating and skeletons going back 10million yrs and they'll say that the earth is 6000yrs old??? Show them fosilized plants and insects from 600million yrs ago to prove the atmosphere was radically different and they'll say the evidence is inconclusive. The fight will go on for eternity. No Darwinism is not perfect, but it is the foundation for the theory of evolution and is paramount to the study of biological science.
Check out the onion's Oct 16th issue: www.theonion.com In news in Brief (which is in the middle of the homepage as you scroll down) check out the article with the following headline: Georgia School Board Bans...
The word "theory" as it relates to scientific discovery has a far more concrete base than in regular discourse