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Freedom of Information Requests Turn Up Creationist Materials In Schools
An anonymous reader writes: In 2008, Louisiana passed a law that was designed to let teachers introduce creationism into public classrooms alongside evolution. Zack Kopplin, a student at the time, decided to fight the law by sending Freedom Of Information Act requests to the schools, asking for anything mentioning creationism or the law itself. While most ignore him, he has received documents showing a clear anti-science stance from school officials. "In one, which appears to contain a set of PowerPoint slides, there's a page titled "Creationism (Intelligent Design)" that refers students to the Answers in Genesis website, along with two other sites that are critical of that group's position. In another, a parent's complaint about a teacher who presents evolution as a fact is met by a principal stating that 'I can assure you this will not happen again.'"
'I can assure you this will not happen again.'
Intelligent Design has failed once, and so has Evolution. Of course it won't happen again. The principal who said that may be the only sane person in the universe. We all know that both ID and Evolution are flawed and only theories; they're not law. The obvious and only correct answer is that it (it? what is it?) is a combination of both theories. And I can assure you that this will not happen again -- it was a disaster.
On the other hand, if a person today says "a burning bush told me to kill a goat and burn it", you would have them locked up.
Yet, those same people celebrate when a person announces that they are a lesbian trapped inside a man's body and want to have a sex change.
Why atheists think anyone who believes in god is crazy yet are ok with someone who believes they are the wrong gender is fascinating to me.
The GP comment presents a compelling argument. You, on the other hand, post about penises ("pegs" and "masts"), then you launch into ad hominem attacks and outright denial. Please put at least a modicum of effort into discussing this matter.
That is not "essentially happening".
You described a situation where the raw data was adjusted twice for good reasons, now explain the other 20 times that it was adjusted.
Please explain why the same data is adjusted multiple times per year, every year. Lets hear it... do not avoid this fact, because I am an eye witness to it.
"His name was James Damore."