[The members of the Pinellas County (FL) School Board, on their decision to exclude "evolution only" teaching from the schools]
"I think that students should be given the opportunity to view all theories on how man evolved and let their science background and their religious background take over as to which one they believe in," said Gallucci, the immediate past president of the National School Boards Association.
Bostock: "The entire theory of evolution is not scientific fact. Intelligent design balances it out."
Cook: "To teach one as if nothing else existed, I think we're doing our students a disservice."
O'Shea suggested that parents who object to evolution being taught to their children might be able to opt them out of that day's lesson. "I'd probably ideally like to keep it all out of the classroom," she said. "If it's going to create this much controversy, how important is it?"
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Astronomy is not scientific fact. Astrology balances it out. To teach one as if nothing else existed, I think we're doing out students a disservice.
Christianity is not the only religion. Scientology balances it out.To teach one as if nothing else existed, I think we're doing out students a disservice.
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I have no problem with people believing in God and evolution. What I have a problem with is teaching a half assed theory, ID that is simply repackaged creationism. The problem with ID is it is not true science. It is religion. I would like to see just one of these ID scientists with a peer reviewed paper.
And what's next?, if they object to mathematics, because the Bible says that pi=3 or biology because they think that, according to the Bible, people lived up to 900 years, should we adapt it too?. Are you a PhD on biology or what?
Don't forget that we should also balance biological reproduction with the stork theory. You know, just to balance things.
Ya know what? Keep your fucking kids ignorant. Your kid will be vacuuming my kid's corner office.
Retards.
"I think that students should be given the opportunity to view all
So they have no objection to Pastafarianism being taught in class then?
OH NOES! Just imagine if the kids actually learned something in school that disputed the BS that their parents had been shoving down their throats for all their formative years. It would be ANARCHY!
What if I object to your version of ID and teach them the Norse creation story. how it all began with Ginnungagap. Or how Odin killed Ymir and created the Earth sea and sky from his body and in the aftermath how he fashioned the first man and woman, Ask and Embla, from two tree trunks that had washed up on the shore. I could also teach the ToE in your sunday schools to balance out your religion.
Are fundies retarded that they fall for this ID crap all the time? I would really like to see a study comparing I.Q. test results from a group of fundies and a group from the general population and compare them after the study has been repeated several times.
And another Dover trial. But here's what worries me. The Supreme Court ruled in Edwards v. Aguillard that creationism is not a science. That was only a 7-2 decision. Thomas was not yet on the bench, Scalia and Rhenquist were the dissent. Rhenquist is gone, but Scalia still sits and now we have Thomas and Alito as well. That's three votes. If Roberts follows his older mentor then that's four votes to allow ID into schools. All it will take is for Kennedy to switch sides, or Souter to die while Bush is in office and suddenly ID will be taught as science. While we can make fun of these claims now, the law is not so settled as we would like it.
"If it's going to create this much controversy, how important is it?"
ID? Not important at all. In fact, to forestall the controversy, IDiots should be forbidden from having any contact with schoolchildren.
Something else: These names are all female. How DARE they presume?
So they're teaching about the Flying Spaghetti Monster too? You mean, they're not?
Letter writing campaign time!
Why stop at Genesis? Why exclude Native American creation myths, like the first people were brought up out of the Earth by Mole? If we include everyone, there will be no time to teach real science in a science class.
Bostock: "The entire theory of evolution is not scientific fact. Intelligent design balances it out."
ToE-Here is fossil and geologic and and taxonomic and genetic evidence that life has been a long progression derived from a common ancestor.
Creationism-Uhhh, God did it.
Yeah, that balances things out all right.
I think that students should be given the opportunity to view all theories on how man evolved
All theories? It'll be a darn long class. Here are a few dozen theories:
Creation Myths from Around the World
Let's not forget the "old-earth" vs "young earth" Christian theories, the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory and Last Thursdayism.
"If it's going to create this much controversy, how important is it?"
That is no excuse to not teach it.
I think that students should be given the opportunity to view all theories on how man evolved
Then again, the ToE is the only theory of the origin of humanity. Everything else is doctrines.
#393300 wrote:
"And what's next?, if they object to mathematics, because the Bible says that pi=3" The Bible says that pi = 3 because of a subtler, much more sinister trait of the Bible.
Have you ever noticed that nowhere in the Bible do they use fractions or decimals? Every number is a whole number. Pi = 3 because GOD HATES NON-INTEGERS!
You know, they're right. When I was at school I was always taught that "gravity" kept me sitting in my seat, when all the time I could have learned the alternative theory, the one that involved magic and panthers and shit. Honestly, evolutionists, get it together.
What really scares me is the fact that idiots like Nancy Bostock and Peggy O' Shea are on a SCHOOL BOARD.
NOW, I'm afraid for my children's futures like never before.
Jane Galluci, Carol Cook, Peggy O'Shea and Nancy Bostock
Voila, a quadrangle of fail.
Confused?
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