Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes

rollcall writes "The Livingston, Louisiana public school district is considering introducing intelligent design into its science curriculum. During the board's meeting Thursday, several board members expressed an interest in the teaching of creationism. 'Benton said that under provisions of the Science Education Act enacted last year by the Louisiana Legislature, schools can present what she termed "critical thinking and creationism" in science classes. Board Member David Tate quickly responded: "We let them teach evolution to our children, but I think all of us sitting up here on this School Board believe in creationism. Why can't we get someone with religious beliefs to teach creationism?" Fellow board member Clint Mitchell responded, "I agree...you don't have to be afraid to point out some of the fallacies with the theory of evolution. Teachers should have the freedom to look at creationism and find a way to get it into the classroom."'"

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African American person evolve from white person?

[nacturation]

Enough said: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Prm_vQQcM

Nope.

[khasim]

I'll assume you meant there's no way to prove any of its claims. The same is true for vertical evolution.

Nope. I mean that there is no way to set up an experiment to show that its claims are false.

And you're going to have to define "vertical evolution" if you want to start making claims about it.

Re:I hope they *do* add this to the curriculum

[Mongoose Disciple]

The first amendment? Free speech? ????

Also a few other things, such as freedom of religion.

(But cue discussion about the viability of stapling amendments to people as a constitutionally protected form of speech anyway, because it's funny.)

Re:I hope they *do* add this to the curriculum

[jeffmeden]

I only hope you are still in school and as such have not taken the appropriate History or Government classes that cover the first amendment. Let me give you a head start, it reads:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Let me give you a hint here: the FIRST TEN WORDS might be of interest to you.

Re:They certainly don't know science.

[canajin56]

Wrong. Please stop spreading misinformation. Falsifiable means you can't disprove the thing, not that you can't disprove the opposites. Science doesn't work by that trite little Holmes saying, "Eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbably, is the truth." It works by finding the simplest explanation for all observations, making predictions with that model, and confirming those predictions until you falsify your current rules and need new ones. If a hypothesis cannot be falsified, it is useless because it is the end. If it's impossible to find a contradiction, it's impossible to refine the model.

Re:Yes, please.

[edremy]

I know you're pseudo-trolling, but this always struck me as the stupidest argument of all time. (And that's really saying something)

If I descended from my great grandmother, why do I still have cousins?

Re:Yes, please.

[Yosho]

You don't understand how evolution works. Read this: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/its_more_than_genes_its_networ.php

It's a lot more complex than "monkeys turned into people."

Re:I hope they *do* add this to the curriculum

[AndersOSU]

What is this, civics class on /.? Refer to the fourteenth amendment and Everson V. Board of Education.

Re:African American person evolve from white perso

[easterberry]

I believe what I am saying is that anyone who claims to be a "biologist" but doesn't understand that evolution is an irrefutable fact isn't really studying biology. the more appropriate analogy would be someone claiming to be a physicist who doesn't believe in the laws of thermodynamics.

Re:Well they didn't seem to have them in the past

[icebraining]

nd for what it's worth, if every one were truly practicing Christians, we wouldn't need much in the way of law enforcement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism

In 1929, the Fascist regime gained the political support and blessing of the Roman Catholic Church after the regime signed a concordat with the Church, known as the Lateran Treaty, which gave the papacy state sovereignty and financial compensation for the seizure of Church lands by the liberal state in the nineteenth century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#Rise_to_power_and_initial_international_spread_of_fascism_.281922.E2.80.931929.29

In April 1941, multi-ethnic Yugoslavia fell to the Nazis who wasted no time in installing the fanatical Ante Pavlics Catholic Ustashe in power in Croatia. With the blessing of the Roman Catholic Church and the active participation of clergy, especially Franciscan monks, the Ustashe killed 750,000 Serbs, Jews, and Roma in an orgy of violence that shocked even some of the Germans and revolted their Italian allies.

http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/the_vatican.htm