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12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the and-the-kids-still-lose dept.

Several sources are reporting that twelve school districts in Florida have passed resolutions against the teaching of evolution. Out of all the arguments, however, one administrator seems to have gotten it right: "Then, the final speaker, Lisa Dizengoff, director of science curriculum at Pembroke Pines Charter School's east campus, angrily reminded the crowd that after all the carping over evolution, no one had gotten around to addressing the state's lackadaisical, last-century approach to science education. 'All I heard was this argument about evolution,' she said, disgusted that so many other problems had been preempted by a single controversy. 'The kids lost out again.''"

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  1. of course they did by stoolpigeon · · Score: 5, Funny

    there was a rumor going around florida might lose their fark tag.

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    1. Re:of course they did by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

      I've been to Florida.

      Believe me! Based on that sample, I'd disbelieve in evolution theory, too!

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    2. Re:of course they did by uncoveror · · Score: 4, Funny

      Most of us are descended from great apes. Floridians are descended from red-ass baboons.

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  2. So....... by aztektum · · Score: 5, Funny

    When do we start bombing the religious zealots in this country for oppressing their people?

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    1. Re:So....... by C0rinthian · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't believe in Gravity. The Earth just sucks.

  3. Re:Opposed to teaching Evolution as a fact.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    pi = 3. It's in the bible, it's the law. I for one do not welcome our divine overlords.

  4. Re:Opposed to teaching Evolution as a fact.... by stewbacca · · Score: 5, Funny

    but I've never actually seen anything evolve.
    Funny, neither has anyone living in Florida.
  5. Re:Opposed to teaching Evolution as a fact.... by Bloke+down+the+pub · · Score: 4, Funny

    pi = 3. It's in the bible, it's the law.
    Knock it off will you, I'm trying to draw a circle and it keeps coming out as a hexagon.
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  6. Re:The Religious Mind by Sloppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    The problem is, how would you know it was god and not some advanced life form?
    PGP Web of Trust, baby! If God signs it, then those people who certified his key would all have to be liars. What's the chance of that?
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  7. Literalism by EnsilZah · · Score: 5, Funny

    You when will you literalists ever learn?
    God only used an integer because support for floating point operations was severely limited in the CPUs of the time.

  8. The resolution is actually PRO evolution by lelitsch · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you actually read the http://www.taylor.k12.fl.us/shared.content/board.meetings/minutes/11-20-07.pdf>meeting minutesyou would see that they are actually EXPANDING on the theory of evolution into the real of cosmology and quantum physics.

    "[we] are requesting that the State Board of Education direct the Florida Department of
    Education to revise/edit the new Sunshine State Standards for Science so that evolution is
    presented as one of several theories as to how the universe was formed."

    I have a graduate degree in physics, but I wasn't aware that the universe was formed by evolution. Although I have to admit that the thought of mating galaxies has a certain appeal.

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  9. Re:talk about sad and daft by Basehart · · Score: 3, Funny

    Amen to that.

  10. At risk of being modded down... by Mex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, *Americans* may come from apes, the rest of the world evolved from hominids ;)

    (yes, yes I know... It's just a joke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominid )