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Texas Bill Outlaws Discrimination Against Creationists In Academia
ndogg writes "There is a Texas bill, HB 2454, proposed by Republican State Rep. Bill Zedler, that will outlaw discrimination against creationists in colleges and universities. More specifically, it says, 'An institution of higher education may not discriminate against or penalize in any manner, especially with regard to employment or academic support, a faculty member or student based on the faculty member's or student's conduct of research relating to the theory of intelligent design or other alternate theories of the origination and development of organisms.'"
People writing this law belong in a mental institution.
In this overly politically correct society, we use the euphemism "church".
We wonder why America is viewed(rightly) as falling behind other countries and then you see nonsense like this getting airplay. I wonder how many Profs in India believe evolution and global warming is bullshit? When your beliefs are so retarded that you need to pass a law stopping people from calling you a moron you know there is an issue. But on a more important level, how could not allowing a science faculty to discipline a prof who clearly ignores rational scientific thought hurt....right?
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Believing in creationism is a sure sign of a bad scientist.
I can't believe that I am quoting this website .. but I think you should try telling your point of view to these scientists for a start.
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The teaching of creationism is gaining credence because of the ongoing reduction in the trust in science. If you think this is funny, you don't realize how severe that erosion is. Bible thumpers tell us the earth is 6,000 years old. Idiots tell us that plate techtonics is wrong. Bimbos make life threatening, yet influential pronouncements on vaccination policy. The list of such moronic musings grows every day. Today, we have very large portions of the planet's population that strongly believe in many things that science has long ago shown to be bunk. Fundamentalist religious beliefs are not confined to the US or christianity.
A number of years ago, I noted here that, as scientists, we had better be right about global warming, because if we are wrong, science itself will suffer. Since that time, we have "scientists" destroying records of behaviour, lest they be "misconstrued", "scientists", with straight faces, saying that an instrument for recording temperature (tree rings) should be believed, even if they do not reflect temperature when calibrated (the divergence problem which is what "hide the decline" is all about). "Scientists" who regularly refuse to provide the basic data that they use to come to conclusions. Were these "scientists" employed as geophysicists for "big oil" in Canada, they would be breaking securities law that requires adherence to NI-43-101.
No wonder people are losing faith in science. Science has broken faith with us.
And that ain't funny.