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New Science Standards Approved in Florida
anonymous_echidna writes "Florida has voted to accept the new K-12 science curriculum standards amidst a storm of controversy around the teaching of evolution, which had up until now been the scientific concept that dare not speak its name. There was a compromise made at the last minute, which was to call evolution a 'scientific theory', rather than a fact. While some lament that the change displays the woeful ignorance of science and scientific terminology, the good news is that the new curriculum emphasizes teaching the meaning of scientific terms and the scientific method in earlier grades."
I'm moving to another country where crazy isn't an approved religion.
Not sure that's the word said scientists would use in this context themselves...
The more dumbasses in the world, the smarter I seem! woo hoo!
Fear me, for I have studied the dark science of natural selection!
"The fight for freedom has only just begun." - Geert Wilders
Let's face it, folks no other state has its own category on Fark.com; the utter lunacy and stupidity down there has been neatly quantified.
I didn't think the house band in Hell would play this badly.
I don't think that word means what you think it means (from a scientific standpoint)
I do not think I can put this in a softer way, so here it goes:
In the name of $HOLY_THING, please inform yourself before attemptying to participate in a discussion, for otherwise you are become line noise.
The difference you are seeing between `law' and `theory' only exists in your confused mind.
Hey, my invisible guy doesn't want to kill me. He wants to give me beer and stripper factories. Unfortunately, he does want me to dress up like a pirate. I think that implies he wants me to go kill all the unbelievers (such as ninjas).
Or you were tossing a softball.
"Why, yes, O'Brien, according to our best evidence we did descend from apes - mor precisely, we and modern apes descended from a common, ape-like ancestor. And I'm proud of how far our species has developed, how far up from the muck we've come, how far towards grace we've climbed; and I hope that our umptity-great grandchildren will be as far above us as we are above the Australopithecines. My opponent the Biblical literalist, on the other hand, seems to hold that we're all the fallen result of incestuous inbreeding from a single original pair of idiots dumb enough to be fooled by a talking snake. I've got to say I find the scientific account not only more rational, but orders of magnitude more inspiring."
Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | my blog
You cannot wash away blood with blood
Hah!
And as a True Believer, I tell you that religion (mine , specifically) still works too, even if you don't believe it.
Just try expressing your non-belief to St. Peter when he kindly asks you to step into the Hand Basket instead of inviting you to pass through the Pearly Gates....
Don't remember where I found this one but it seems to fit in with this thread.
Christianity
The belief that some cosmic, Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
Makes perfect sense.
--- If the bible proves the existence of God, then Superman comics prove the existence of Superman.