Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/science/earth/04climate.html

Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets

By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Published: March 3, 2010

Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools.

In Kentucky, http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB397/bill.doc">a bill recently introduced in the Legislature would encourage teachers to discuss “the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories,” including “evolution, the origins of life, global warming and human cloning.”

The bill, which has yet to be voted on, is patterned on even more aggressive efforts in other states to fuse such issues. In Louisiana, http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=482728">a law passed in 2008 says the state board of education may assist teachers in promoting “critical thinking” on all of those subjects.

Last year, the Texas Board of Education adopted language requiring that teachers present all sides of the evidence on evolution and global warming.

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[Teaser]

1. when does this fucking nonsense stop?

.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. Right after we're all dead?

http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/

[DrDan]

3. "disadvantages of scientific theories" - what the heck does that mean?

how does a scientific theory have a disadvantage?

[HeresyLives]

5. GW costs money, and disrupts our way of life.

And Darwin means we're not 'special'.

[DrDan]

6. exactly - science and facts just complicate life and cause

dissention with our personal beliefs.

So label them as bunk.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. If these RWingnuts have their way, I assume we will all be back to living in caves,

hunting our food with big sticks and eating it uncooked and wearing animal skins for clothing.


"It's a very good idea, but can't we have something a little more 'poetic'
- like a flat earth resting on the back of a giant crocodile
floating in an infinite sea of mammoth milk?

[Kablooie]

8. But when that happens they will call us all hippies and change their views again.

Thinking is not a factor in these people.

[hatrack]

7. "Kids, THINKING about THEORIES is no way to get an education!"

[amborin]

9. saw this today in ny times, just insane

[tinrobot]

10. Anti-intellectualism at it's finest.

[Nihil]

11. And this is how a civilization fails ...

... not with a bang but with a grunt.

:argh: