Spreading Santorum: Slick Rick Urges the Teaching of Creationism in Public Schools

[marmar]

from HuffPost:



Former Pennsylvania Sen. and GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum says the "left" and "scientific community" have monopolized the public school system's curriculum, only permitting the teaching of evolution and leaving no room for the introduction of creation-based theories in the classroom.

"There are many on the left and in the scientific community, so to speak, who are afraid of that discussion because oh my goodness you might mention the word, God-forbid, 'God' in the classroom, or 'Creator,' that there may be some things that are inexplainable by nature where there may be, where it's actually better explained by a Creator, and of course we can't have that discussion," Santorum said in an editorial interview with the Nashua Telegraph. "It's very interesting that you have a situation where science will only allow things in the classroom that are consistent with a non-Creator idea of how we got here, as if somehow or another that's scientific. Well maybe the science points to the fact that maybe science doesn't explain all these things. And if it does point to that, then why don't you pursue that? But you can't, because it's not science, but if science is pointing you there how can you say it's not science? It's worth the debate."

Santorum has long expressed frustration with -- and tried to combat -- the whole "science only allows science to be taught in science class" scenario. He attempted to append the self-titled "Santorum Amendment" to the No Child Left Behind Act back when he was a senator in 2001. The amendment, which failed, served the dual purposes of promoting the inclusion of intelligent design teachings in classrooms, while simultaneously undercutting the academic merits of evolution. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/rick-santorum-creationism_n_1120766.html

[msongs]

1. he is struggling for relevancy in the world, evidently not content to focus on his family nt

[and-justice-for-all]

2. Uh no...

there is sunday school for that kind of thing.

[gratuitous]

3. What. A. Dolt.

Yes Rick, as unfair as it sounds, a science class is primarly preoccupied with teaching science. Hare-brained ideas that are not measurable, observable and reproducible don't qualify as science, even if you dress them up in "God" clothing to gull the gullible.

[Angry Dragon]

4. God created a dumb piece of shit because he was having a bad day

and called him Santorum
There is no other explaination

[Old and In the Way]

5. Rick, you sanctimonious phoney....you ought to be running for

Pope, not for President. You obviously never got why the Pilgrims came to this country or that Church/State separation thing the founding fathers framed the Constitution around. You are dangerous to our whole way of life.

[tabasco]

6. Good idea, let's teach it.

Students, there is no evidence that a supernatural being created the universe.

But some people believe it. Others, such as politicians, pander to those people.

What are your questions?

[d_r]

7. stupid, so to speak, scientists

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. So Spunky is cool with teaching about Chaos, out of which emerged Gaia,

as well as Eros, Tartarus, and Erebus, as described by Hesiod in his Greek Theogony?

[RainDog]

9. what a frothy mixture of...

stupidity and Santorum.