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Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law
H0D_G writes "The US state of Louisiana has passed the 'Science Education Act,' a piece of legislation that could allow Intelligent design to be taught in schools. From the article: 'The act is designed to slip ID in "through the back door"'"
...we all know how Christianity feels about slipping things in through the back door.
Makes sense...after you've experienced the great flood (Katrina), why shouldn't you believe everything else in the Bible?
.. as it also opens the door for the teachings of our noodly saviour
As a member of the Church of FSM, I am insulted. If they are allowed to teach ID in the classroom, then the story of the Flying Spaghetti Monster should be allowed as well. Blessed be his noodly greatness!
priests should do it, but not talk about it?
intelligent design (ID) - the proposition that life is too complicated. Go go Ganesh!
Stop believing, start thinking.
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
All glory to the Hypnotoad!
The Long Now Foundation
Dear Louisiana,
Please do not slip anything through my child's back door. Intelligent design or otherwise.
Yours,
A Parent.
PS: I look forward to a pirate-based global warming curriculum.
Use the Firehose to mod down Second Life stories!
... right where ID belongs.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Its OK, no education is involved either.
Interestingly, one of the best known "intelligent design" textbook was created by doing something along these lines:
$ sed 's/creationism/intelligent design/g' creationist_textbook.txt
I am officially gone from
gays and straights aren't competing for market share.
I'll say. I haven't been asked out by either side in months.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
These people vote for such a law, yet they don't think it is possible that they are related to monkeys?
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful [as a Babel fish] could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. -HHGttG, Douglas Adams
Let states pass legislation like this, on the grounds that they rename their science curriculum and classes to reflect what they're teaching: pseudo-science. That way, it's clear to everyone (especially universities) which students (potential employees) have had a proper science curriculum, and which have taken pseudo-science classes that teach them that non-scientific concepts need to be considered as legitimate alternatives to scientific ones. I could care less if a state wants to fuck up all of its children, and raise a generation that can't properly apply the scientific method, just as I could care less that there are millions of parents that do exactly the same thing to their kids with or without good schools today. But at least make it clear to everyone else what's going on and call it what it is.