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Evolution No Longer Worth Learning, Says Government
Davemania writes "New York Times reports that the Evolution biology subject has disappeared from a list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students. The Education department has described this as a Clerical Mistake but others are skeptical about this. 'Scientists who knew about the omission also said they found the clerical explanation unconvincing, given the furor over challenges by the religious right to the teaching of evolution in public schools. "It's just awfully coincidental," said Steven W. Rissing, an evolutionary biologist at Ohio State University.'" As someone who made use of one of those grants to study Evolutionary Biology, I find this more than a little galling.
Hey Bud! Its just a part of Evolution of schools. Its closed minds like that, that hault the ability to learn more perspectives.
Clerical?
oops, can't teach that any more.
The problem with teaching evolution is that it is shining a very bright light on the flaws in every religion in the world today. The atheists cheer, but I watch with reservation. Let me explain...
First of all, the atheists cheer because atheists are some of the most religious people I've ever met. They are FURIOUS in their belief that God does NOT exist, with as much proof as the religious have that God DOES exist. We are contained in this universe like a lead box. And for now and all of the foreseeable future, we cannot look outside of it. We cannot even determine if there is an outside of it, but I digress...
More importantly, why do I watch with reservation at the revelation of our own ignorance? Because, every society in the world is built on some form of religion. From the smallest tribe in Africa, to the great United States of America (in God we trust), all these societies have been formed by people who believed in something strong enough to fight for it. So, the evolutionists are playing a game of Jenga with the social fabric of our current world.
There is a story in old Superman comics about a scientifically advanced alien race that became so intelligent that it eventually discovered the meaning of its own existence, and everything. It went on to say that they then destroyed themselves -- they lost the motivation to live. They saw the world as being meaningless, pointless, animalistic, and found neither pleasure nor adventure in it.
We are facing a similar problem. Many, many people in the world live for their beliefs. You take that away, and what do they have? Porn? Video games? Extreme sports? These things are fun, but do not bring meaning or focus to our lives. And if these people lose all purpose then they will either become self-destructive, or will rebound into extreme beliefs.
Everything you see around you was built because of religion. Turn your back on everything we've done and learned over our existence and we will undoubtedly repeat history. Only, we might not make it this far next time.
Essentially, we are bringing ourselves back into a spiritual kind of Dark Age. We spent thousands of years arguing over WHY we are here. We killed each other, we committed horrendous atrocities, and we didn't even have any definition of morality. (They had to make a law 'thou shalt not murder'??)
Now, perhaps the band-aid fix of religion wasn't a perfect solution, but it was some kind of solution that allowed the human population to flourish. We are building sky-scrapers, we are watching cells divide, and we are beginning to understand the birth and death of stars.
Religion isn't such a big issue/concern/problem because it exists. It is these things because WE exist and are unable to stop asking and searching for the answer to this one question: Why?
Science is great, but science does not help a mother cope with the pain of losing her son. And mood altering drugs dehumanize us by taking away our emotions, or giving us fake ones. If you think the religious have a loose grip on reality, just look at people on a cocktail of mood adjusters and stabilizers.
These are not solutions, these are more band-aid fixes. You cannot use science to comfort a child when their dog dies. I think I've beaten this point to death.
I for one am more comfortable with the devil we know, than a world of robotic people living on pills that turn us into, excuse the irony, only God knows what. And while evolution isn't the cause of these problems, it is bringing them into the light long before we have solutions.
I'm not saying that the study of evolution is fruitless. I am saying that it represents a danger to our social fabric much the same as the discovery of atomic energy.
So please, show some respect to our past and try to understand that the world is made up of many confused people who will spend their entire lives searching for happiness, and meaning, things which the theory of evolution does not bring them.
Let me leave you with one last analo
The answer is mindfuck.
Pupils should not believe what they are told in school and 60% of leading scientific teachings are bogus as we will be told in 20 years - in fact the teachings which are considered bogus today were bogus 20 years ago as well. So thinking different is important in evolutionary theory. And maybe the alternative teachings are more entertaining and pupils learn something important for life: resistance against indoctrination.
Social darwinism is crap and was crap but society also follows evolutionary principles.
Let's consider them:
1) mutation
2) recombination
3) selection
4) isolation
Very good principles, also for US society. The current mindfuck approach follows "4) isolation" but real fucking mindfuck is based on 2) recombination. Scientific purity approaches follow 3) selection which is the most problematic one because pluralism is essential for evolutionary progress. But, ehemm it makes it easier to separate wheat from chaff. Just aks them about their opinion. Ehmm, and 4) mutation is just a new braindead idea in the field of evolution... (sorry alien theory is already existing). Should not happen too often.
Strong assertion, let's apply a little deductive logic:
:):):):)
toxic -> deadly -> will no longer exist left untreated
toxic to free thought -> free thought will no longer exist
Let p be defined as existence of religion
q be defined as existence of free thought
The assertion is that:
p -> ~q
or
The existence of religion implies the non-existence of free thought (eventual)
We know that from modus tollens
~(~q) -> ~p
simplifying
q -> ~p
Or
Where there is an existence of free thought there is a non-existence (suppression, ban) of religion.
Let r be defined as the location where the non-existence of religion is/was enforced (China, North Korea, Soviet Union, California). Clearly,
~p -> r
So we have,
q -> ~p
~p -> r
By implication
q -> r
Or
The existence of free thought implies that one lives in a country where the non-existence of religion is enforced. We now have mathematical proof of what has always been suspected:
You free thinkers are a bunch of commies