I was looking for a new Dell laptop yesterday on the "Healthcare" section of their site when I noticed this. The downgrade (according to the Dell site) comes with a DVD allowing you to "migrate to Windows Vista on your own schedule." Both OSs are covered for the limited warranty period. So I guess they think they are doing you a favour?
I have Vista on one side of a dual boot machine, and refuse to use it. Microsoft need to realize that, just like Windows ME, people don't want Vista. It sucks. They failed. Move on, but don't force us to use it, please!
The "point" of the movie is that scientists are being expelled, correct. However, you might want to look at www.expelledexposed.com to see that the scientists interviewed in the movie were NOT censured for their belief in ID. Sternburg did not get tenure, but that was because his publication record had plummeted and he had gotten virtually no external funding in recent years. Don't take Ben Stein's word for it (or mine). expelledexposed details all these cases. Please read them, and see what a huge lie Ben Stein is promoting.
The theory of descent with modification is an important concept in the biological sciences. Without it, very little in biology actually makes sense. Sure - you could teach science without it, but why should you be forced to? You could probably teach physics without mentioning the theory of electricity, but why would you do that? Electricity is a thoroughly grounded (pardon the pun) concept, with lots of evidence in it's favor. Same with evolution.
Further, to teach something else instead - something which is demonstrably not a science and has no evidence for it - is stupid. Teaching ID would be worse than not teaching evolution. ID says it is OK to not search for answers. To give up and say "it is too hard, I'm just going to say godditit instead of finding a real answer." ID is ANTIscientific.
So I have a grip alright - I have a very firm grip on the stick that says that we teach the very best theories that scientists can come up with. That we not remove good science from the curriculum just because some group or other doesn't like it.
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I was looking for a new Dell laptop yesterday on the "Healthcare" section of their site when I noticed this. The downgrade (according to the Dell site) comes with a DVD allowing you to "migrate to Windows Vista on your own schedule." Both OSs are covered for the limited warranty period. So I guess they think they are doing you a favour? I have Vista on one side of a dual boot machine, and refuse to use it. Microsoft need to realize that, just like Windows ME, people don't want Vista. It sucks. They failed. Move on, but don't force us to use it, please!
The "point" of the movie is that scientists are being expelled, correct. However, you might want to look at www.expelledexposed.com to see that the scientists interviewed in the movie were NOT censured for their belief in ID. Sternburg did not get tenure, but that was because his publication record had plummeted and he had gotten virtually no external funding in recent years. Don't take Ben Stein's word for it (or mine). expelledexposed details all these cases. Please read them, and see what a huge lie Ben Stein is promoting.
The theory of descent with modification is an important concept in the biological sciences. Without it, very little in biology actually makes sense. Sure - you could teach science without it, but why should you be forced to? You could probably teach physics without mentioning the theory of electricity, but why would you do that? Electricity is a thoroughly grounded (pardon the pun) concept, with lots of evidence in it's favor. Same with evolution. Further, to teach something else instead - something which is demonstrably not a science and has no evidence for it - is stupid. Teaching ID would be worse than not teaching evolution. ID says it is OK to not search for answers. To give up and say "it is too hard, I'm just going to say godditit instead of finding a real answer." ID is ANTIscientific. So I have a grip alright - I have a very firm grip on the stick that says that we teach the very best theories that scientists can come up with. That we not remove good science from the curriculum just because some group or other doesn't like it.