And did I mention that Gov. Palin believes that christianist creation mythology is science?
From the Anchorage Daily News of Oct. 27, 2006:
The volatile issue of teaching creation science in public schools popped up in the Alaska governor’s race this week when Republican Sarah Palin said she thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution in the state’s public classrooms.
Palin was answering a question from the moderator near the conclusion of Wednesday night’s televised debate on KAKM Channel 7 when she said, “Teach both. You know, don’t be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and it’s so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both.”
Her main opponents, Democrat Tony Knowles and Independent Andrew Halcro, said such alternatives to evolution should be kept out of science classrooms. Halcro called such lessons “religious-based” and said the place for them might be a philosophy or sociology class.
Teaching mythology as an equal to science is not simply providing information, it is a legitimization of religionist fantasy – much like the defense of the anti-science fantasy of J. Michael Bailey - and sanctions intimidation of anyone who opts out of religion games in favor of reality.
And, based on my memories of public school, I wasn’t allowed to ‘debate’ what was science and what was not – just like I wasn’t allowed to ‘debate’ the merits of reading Billy Budd in English class.
And it looks as though that page on the Anchorage Daily News site has been rediscovered since McBushMcSameMcViagraMcCain’s announcement today.
Wow, if you people would actually bother to read what she said she basically said that if a student asks about creationism it should be open to discussion. Only a closed-minded zealot should have any problem with that.
And just what exactly would the discussion be???
Student: “Did God create everything in seven days?”
Teacher: “No.”End of discussion.
Seriously, what is a science teacher supposed to discuss about creationism? It doesn’t come into play at all regarding evolution. If someone wants to teach their kid that evolution is false then so be it, but just because people want to believe wacky things doesn’t mean that science has to give it any credence whatsoever.
And, as of 11 am CDT today, McBushMcSameMcViagraMcCain’s campaign is something that should be given no credence whatsoever.
August 29, 2008 at 6:33 pm |
I have to agree with her – why not teach both? Science classes should also teach that the sun revolveds around the Earth. I’m a bit miffed at how all the attention goes to evolution – there’s so many other scientific theories and facts that need to be debated from a biblical perspective (I’m looking at you big bang theory!)
I Kings 7:23 ~ He then made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim. A line of thirty cubits would encircle it completely. – The constant Pi (π), the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle, is not a simple 3 as is here stated. While the decimal expansion of π runs to infinity, for practical purposes it is commonly rounded to 3.1416. This same error is repeated in II Chronicles 4:2. It is a known historical fact that both the Egyptians and Babylonians had approximated π to a few decimal places long before the oldest books of the Bible were written.
Kids need Biblically based geometry, now more than ever. Fancy San Francisco mathmeticians are trying to sway them with un-Biblical things like negative numbers, calculus – even imaginary numbers!
Gimme that old time mathematics.
Leviticus 11:6 ~ And the hare, because he cheweth the cud…. Hares, like rabbits, are lagomorphs, not ruminants. – They do not chew the cud.
Leviticus 11:13-19 ~ These are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten , . . . the eagle, and . . . the bat. – The bat is not a fowl. It’s a mammal.
Leviticus 11:22-23 ~ These ye may eat; the locust…and the beetle…and the grasshopper. But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. – There is no such thing as a 4-legged insect.
Leviticus 11:20 ~ All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. There is not now nor has there ever been a 4-legged fowl
Deuteronomy 14:7 ~ . . . as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof. – Here the Bible writer(s) compound the “cud” blunder by implying that the hare has hoofs.
Matthew 13:31-32 ~ Jesus said, The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree. – The mustard seed is not the smallest of all seeds. Others, such as the orchid seed, are smaller. Also, shrubs do not grow into trees
August 30, 2008 at 6:15 pm |
“imaginary numbers”
You mean…like the number of things the Human Right Scampaign has actually done to ‘educate’ anyone about real-life trans issues?
That’s way beyond my capacity to imagine.