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Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools.
“Our kids are being presented theories as though they are facts,” said State Representative Tim Moore of Kentucky.
Yay! Educating them in denial AND denial of responsibility!
I pity those poor children in backward, pious, Third World countries like America.
posted on March 4, 2010You don't have permission to flag this entry.
This sort of thing has been happening for several years now. They want to lower science to their level because they can not compete on a level playing field. Just tell people science is just another worldview based on nothing more than faith like their own. If you don’t want it to be true then it isn’t. These people skipped The Age of Enlightenment.
posted on March 6, 2010You don't have permission to flag this entry.
Re: KY state senator, TIm Moore
Why would anybody be surprised at anything the KY legislature does? They just introduced a bill to demand “bible literacy” in public schools. Really.
posted on March 6, 2010You don't have permission to flag this entry.
This makes me want to throw up. I am dubious about global warming because I think the science is suspect. I don’t doubt evolution because the science is rock solid. I hate that the creationists are trying to link the two.
posted on March 6, 2010You don't have permission to flag this entry.
I used to be skeptical of global warming as well until I really studied the facts. It’s possible all the correlations could be a fluke, but I think it’s more of a stretch to believe that than it is to believe the warming is anthropogenic.
People will dismiss the evidence for whatever reasons political or religious. It’s not an accident non-religious conservatives are generally dismissive of the evidence. We certainly wouldn’t want to give up our SUVs and affluent/wasteful lifestyle would we?
posted on March 6, 2010You don't have permission to flag this entry.
Somebody among the creationists is extremely smart to link these two things, even though they are apples and appaloosas. Which should serve as a reminder that smart and dumb, unlike like those other too-simple pairings: left and right, god-fearing and godless, for instance, are, I believe, proportionally identical across all of them.
Snobbery has no place in this debate, or shouldn’t. That’s why the “warmists” have lost their PR battle, at least for the time being.
posted on March 6, 2010You don't have permission to flag this entry.
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I think what he MEANT to say was “Our children are being presented facts as theories.”
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