Kansas creationists redefine science

[asterroc]

c/o jethereal

The Kansas Board of Education approved new public-school science standards Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.
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Supporters of the new standards said they would promote academic freedom.

“This is a great day for education. This is one of the best things that we can do,” said board chairman Steve Abrams. Another board member who voted in favor of the standards, John Bacon, said the move “gets rid of a lot of dogma that’s being taught in the classroom today.”
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In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.

(MSNBC)

Comments

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

I have a large vocabulary in two languages and lack the words to describe my outrage and disgust at this stupidity. And it just kept getting worse. And worse.
If science is no longer limited to using natural explanations of phenomena does that mean that next time I am trying to figure out a reaction mechanism I can just say that it happens because God says so rather than trying to figure out the interactions of electrons?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Sure thing! I'll also let you turn in dance interpretations instead of lab reports.

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

Allowing and grading favorably are very different things. Although I did get a significant amount of grading leciency in physics for showing my prof <a href="http://www.archive.org>www.archive.org</a>

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Um, your post cut off in mid-sentence. Care to finish? :-P

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

How odd that it did that. Stupid LJ code. it should have finished "for showing him Archive.org (way to lazy to write the html now). We're both big deadheads so he was thrilled that I showed it too him (they have about 3000 shows posted for free download). And every week in lab we listened to a different show. Man that was a great lab.

[sammka.livejournal.com]

Somehow rewriting the definition of science is the kicker. It's so logically consistent with the whole "Intelligent Design" hypothesis, and yet so TOTALLY OFF THE WALL at the same time. What the hell IS science, then, if not the search for natural explanations of phenomena??? Basically we're back to "observing phenomena and making shit up about why they happen"???

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

That sounds about right to me.

What gets me is that they claim that ID isn't about religious creationism, but if you say "what about aliens?" they reply it couldn't be that. Not that they have any more proof against aliens than they do against evolution or for God.

[sammka.livejournal.com]

In the words of Dan Bern:

They look for the missing link
There ain't no missing link
They're never, ever going to find the missing link
There's no missing link
We're not something you can figure out with an equation
We are the genetic mutation

Aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey
Aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey

Darwin tried explaining it
Darwin did the best he could
Evolution-- pretty theory
But how could Darwin know, that

Aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey
Aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey

How else explain fax machines?
How else explain computer enhancement?
How else explain digital remastering?
How else explain Mozart?

We do not belong here
This planet was a terrarium
Intergalactic broken home
Have to go to outer space
And one day find our daddy

How else explain pay at the pump?
How else explain the beltway?
How else explain astronomy?
How else explain astrology?
We do not belong here
This planet was a terrarium
Seven billion bastards
Screaming for their daddy

Aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey

and now

[poludamas.livejournal.com]

Pat Robertson is saying he wouldn't be surprised if there were divine retribution visited upon Dover, PA because they completely replaced the pro-ID members of their education board.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051110/ts_nm/religion_robertson_dc

Re: and now

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I heard that. Ass.

There are reasons I like Pennsylvania. They and upstate NY are all the good things of the Mid-West without a lot of the stupid shit.