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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 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