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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.
No the Bush Administration was stupid enough to falsify the intelligence leading to the Iraq War because they were stupid enough to believe that they new better than the experts and stupid enough to assume that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction because former Republican Administration were stupid enough to sell the weapons to Saddam Hussein in the first place. They were stupid enough to lie to congress and were stupid enough that they couldn't surpress contrary opinions in the intelligence comittee without making a big fuss over it. And they were stupid enough to use evidence that was obviously wrong.
There's no contradiction here because no part of their idiotic bumbling could ever be qualified as smart.
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Remember that Science can only explain observable events.
Most religons would agree that Microevolution is Science, it can be observed. But Macroevolution (what most people think of as Evolution) can't been observed. Until Macroevolution can be observed it is just another religion.
It's not a debate of science or religion, but just a debate of religon.
No one is going to read your post n3IVI0, because it screams "I am an ignorant moron, please disregard anything I say." Try returning to grade school before using these scary computers to talk on the internets.