Pugs in MO introduce legislation mandating how evolution

[ikojo]

is taught in public schools...

First Kansas and now Ashcroft's home state of Missouri...the pugs gained control of both houses in Jefferson City and this is what we get. Considering that there is a good possibility Holden may not HOLD-ON to the governorship (he's not that popular) Missouri could have a pug governor in November...ugh...
I looked in Latest Breaking News and was not sure this belonged there so I am sharing it with the Lounge Lizards.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/Education/74E518C9FF11087F86256E2400376380?OpenDocument&Headline=Bill+defines+how+to+teach+life's+origins&highlight=2%2Cevolution

Bill defines how to teach life's origins
By Carolyn Bower
Of the Post-Dispatch
01/23/2004

Schools would be
required to teach
intelligent design

A handful of Missouri legislators have signed on to a proposal that would change how teachers introduce students to information about the origin of life.

Public school teachers who teach evolution also would have to teach intelligent design under the proposal pending in the Missouri House of Representatives.

New textbooks would have to label evolution as a theory that cannot be proved. A teacher, principal or superintendent could be fired for deliberately ignoring these requirements.

[rocktivity]

1. Where's the proof that evolution can't be proved?

And where's the proof that intelligent design can be proved? Most important, where's the proof that intelligent design is intelligent?

Evolution, correct or not, is a scientific theory. Intelligent design (a euphemism for Judeo-Christian creationism) is a religious one. The two cannot be interchanged.

rocknation

[ikojo]

2. Is it in the B I B L E?

Well, if it isn't in God's WORD then it can't be proved now can it?


<sarcasm off>

[BBradley]

3. Why don't they just strike biology from the curriculum?

Evolution is the backbone of modern biology. I'm sorry, but I'm a high school student, and you can keep your superstitions out of my classes thank you.

[dolo amber]

4. Oi!!

As a pug owner, I object to your subject line.

I prefer *Repukes*, *Repubes*...anything but comparing those soul-sucking jerks to wee adorable doggies.

;)

Now, about the post itself, well...it's not surprising really. It's actually more surprising it's not happened before now. x(

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Wow - I'd much rather that they just teach science

Are they gonna match it with a hindu mythology-based psuedo-science?

Give equal time to the native-american turtles-all-the-way-down
science?

I get so disgusted with these people I could just scream. Their idiocy, their short-sightedness, their fear-mongering... it all makes me so angry.

:argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh:

[arcane1]

6. I'm glad all the kids in MO have plenty of food, are healthy..

no abuse going on, no crime, the worst thing that can happen to a child in MO is that they might think about icky science...

these people need to get a LIFE!!!!


I shudder to think of how uneducated, ignorant, and naieve the next generation is going to be

we are doomed