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New Science Standards Approved in Florida

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the thinking-of-the-voters-not-the-children dept.

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."

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  1. Jesus Fucking Christ by Protonk · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm moving to another country where crazy isn't an approved religion.

    1. Re:Jesus Fucking Christ by trongey · · Score: 5, Funny

      RE: Title of parent post.
      I don't think he could do that, even with miraculous powers. I know, the whole one-in-three business makes it kind of confusing, but I still just don't think it could be done.

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    2. Re:Jesus Fucking Christ by DrLang21 · · Score: 5, Funny

      The only reason theories come about is because of a fact. You mean like string theory?

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      I see the glass as full with a FoS of 2.
  2. woo hoo! by urcreepyneighbor · · Score: 5, Funny

    The more dumbasses in the world, the smarter I seem! woo hoo!

    Fear me, for I have studied the dark science of natural selection!

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    1. Re:woo hoo! by RingDev · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's that exact logic that got me a girl friend with small hands.

      My junk looks HUGE!

      -Rick

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      "Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
    2. Re:woo hoo! by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just make sure you get her back to day care before her mommy comes to pick her up.

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  3. Re:The news media is a major part of the problem by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 5, Funny

    You would never say that unless you wanted to get the "I didn't come from no monkey!" camp riled up, or you were an uneducated buffoon.

    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."

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    You cannot wash away blood with blood
  4. Christianity by kryliss · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    --- If the bible proves the existence of God, then Superman comics prove the existence of Superman.