Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution

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Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @05:52AM from the inherit-the-wind-II dept.

Layzej writes "The Tennessee Senate has passed a bill that allows teachers to 'teach the controversy' on evolution, global warming and other scientific subjects. Critics have called it a 'monkey bill' that promotes creationism in classrooms. In a statement sent to legislators, eight members of the National Academy of Science said that, in practice, the bill will likely lead to 'scientifically unwarranted criticisms of evolution.' and that 'By undermining the teaching of evolution in Tennessee's public schools, HB368 and SB893 would miseducate students, harm the state's national reputation, and weaken its efforts to compete in a science-driven global economy.'"

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Re:There's Your Problem Right There by SuricouRaven · 2012-03-21 06:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Actually creationists have many counterarguments. You picked one of the more intelligent ones.
Re:There's Your Problem Right There by C0R1D4N · 2012-03-21 06:05 · Score: 4, Funny

So, things that we take as fact "sun is center of our galaxy", "earth is round", is now a proven theory. But in essence, still a theory.
Sun center of our galaxy, huh? I see someone went to school on Tennessee
Re:Simple solution... by SJHillman · 2012-03-21 06:05 · Score: 4, Funny

What about an interdisciplinary course covering phrenology and alchemy. Then we could have gold dandruff!
Re:There's Your Problem Right There by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-21 06:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Sorry.
Don't worry about it Flyerman ... er ... jhoegl ... ?

In theory, how many accounts do you have? Enough to that you were flipping through them to mod yourself up as far as you could when you noticed your error?
Re:There's Your Problem Right There by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-21 06:09 · Score: 5, Funny

This isn't about the facts.
I mean the creationist counter argument is that it contradicts a bunch of fairy tales written thousands of years ago by sand people.
You aren't going to be able to get the idea of evolution through that brainwashed blank stare they throw up when you start talking about science.
Am I the only person who read "sand people" and immediately thought of the deserts of Tatooine *hoooooooark hoark hoark*?
Re:There's Your Problem Right There by Oswald+McWeany · 2012-03-21 06:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Shhh... he took a semester of school in Tennessee...

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Re:There's Your Problem Right There by Ihmhi · 2012-03-21 07:22 · Score: 5, Funny

you could almost say that the arguments evolve.
Well, we can at least say for sure that they weren't intelligently designed.

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Re:There's Your Problem Right There by GerryGilmore · 2012-03-21 08:45 · Score: 4, Funny

Haven't you ever heard the old joke about how all the math and science teachers in Tennessee have the same first name? It's "Coach".
Re:There's Your Problem Right There by Chris+Burke · 2012-03-21 10:21 · Score: 4, Funny

You cannot substitute your fantasy world for reality and continue to be a "good person".
Well in my fantasy world you can, so there!

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