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Evolution Named Scientific Achievement of 2005
lazy_hp writes "The BBC reports that research into evolution's inner working has been named rtop science achievement of 2005 From the article: 'The prestigious US journal Science publishes its top 10 list of major endeavours at the end of each year. The number one spot was awarded jointly to several studies that illuminated the intricate workings of evolution. The announcement comes in the same week that a US court banned the teaching of intelligent design in classrooms.'"
New flash! State of Kansas has banned the use of the term Science from all schools and teachers with degrees are being fired. "They just don't seem to want to teach the true faith. So they have to go."
In a possibly related story people from Kansas are so dumb they are unable to figure out how to turn the lights on in their own homes.
They're having a rough week. Now would be a hilarious time to try to force science into the churchroom. Any fundies up for some preachings from "Darwin's Gospel"?
Kick 'em while they're down, I say. Can I get an "Amen!"
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
Why is it academics and scientists so often decide that they are simply better than everyone else? Simply because by their own standards they achieve better than others? How would they feel if groups of people who say excelled at spiritual aspects of life, which apparently are beyond the reach of so many of these people, and simply stated that the realization of intelligent design was the top epiphany of 2005? It'd be laughed as a self promoting statement. Of course though I imagine they'd be quite offended if we pointed out this was the same thing. Humans are arrogant.
Like with most things, some slashdotters like me are being *extra* nerdy and insisting that mere theological theories don't get touted as fact. Evolution, having replaced "God did it" with "Random Chance did it" is particularily bad at this; as is the claim that ID is not science because of some incredibly arbitrary and subjective rules about who is a scientist and what a science is. Thus the argument every time it shows up.
BTW, it has nothing at all to do with creationism- the type of ID we're talking about takes a given the scientific age of the earth at about 4 billion years and the latest age of the universe at 19.3 billion years. Creationists peg the entire shebang at much less than that- around 6000 years or so. What the argument is really about to me is arrogance, certainty, and the nature of the word "fact".
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Regardless of whether you agree or not, this should not be flamebait. He made an intellegent comment that was on topic..... Man I'm so glad the moderators are not like those close-minded Christians....
No!! Don't teach it to kids, at all. If there were a religion that sponsored Thursday School where they taught kids that whites were morally superior to blacks, or that Asian kids were smarter than Caucasians, or that the Sun goes around the Earth, or that electricity is a magical force that comes from God and makes the lights turn on at night, or that you can have whatever you wish for if you just pray hard enough to Shai'Hulud, would that be okay with everyone? No! I'm gonna get burned at the stake someday, or at least modded down for this, but it has to be said. Let's stop teaching our children things that aren't true.
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He would've created evolution - that way he wouldn't be responsible for all the mistakes.
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran