Oklahoma: Insist That People Coexisted With Dinosaurs…and Get an A in Science Class!
Intelligence is so elitist.
In biology class, public school students can't generally argue that dinosaurs and people ran around Earth at the same time, at least not without risking a big fat F. But that could soon change for kids in Oklahoma: On Tuesday, the Oklahoma Common Education committee is expected to consider a House bill that would forbid teachers from penalizing students who turn in papers attempting to debunk almost universally accepted scientific theories such as biological evolution and anthropogenic (human-driven) climate change.
Gus Blackwell, the Republican state representative who introduced the bill, insists that his legislation has nothing to do with religion; it simply encourages scientific exploration. "I proposed this bill because there are teachers and students who may be afraid of going against what they see in their textbooks," says Blackwell, who previously spent 20 years working for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. "A student has the freedom to write a paper that points out that highly complex life may not be explained by chance mutations."
Stated another way, students could make untestable, faith-based claims in science classes without fear of receiving a poor mark.
HB 1674 is the latest in an ongoing series of "academic freedom" bills aimed at watering down the teaching of science on highly charged topics. Instead of requiring that teachers and textbooks include creationism—see the bill proposed by Missouri state Rep. Rick Brattin—HB 1674's crafters say it merely encourages teachers and students to question, as the bill puts it, the "scientific strengths and weaknesses" of topics that "cause controversy," including "biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning."
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/oklahoma-hr1674-science-evolution-climate-change
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and even better is the fact that Michael Behe got his ass handed to him by both the attorney for the plaintiff, and the judge.
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came along and it was replaced with Einstein's theory. Einsteins theory may be improved upon with String Theory. How do you put a saddle on a dinosaur? Very carefully. 
Apparently he thinks "imaginary numbers" are taken on faith.
I pointed out that those "imaginary" numbers are very real. If they didn't exist, neither would your cell phone.
It's the same logic by people saying that "E=mc^2" doesn't exist. I ask them to please explain the following:
years ago, before she apparently had incestuous relations with her sons to populate the planet and before the bearded dude put two of all the animals on the big boat? Wow, think about that -- because there are about 400,000 species of beetles on the planet, and, of course God must have made them all "as is," right?, wow, old Noah must have had to have made a shitload of cargo space just for beetles!
Yes, I'm sure there are plenty of peer-reviewed scientific sources to support that version of things!
And if you're not, then you really don't have an understanding of what science does.
But I suspect you may not be joking which is really unfortunate.
And no matter how well articulated that paper may be, it would still be based on a faulty premise.
Anyone who writes a paper in science class that presents creationism as fact deserves an F in the class.
What more do you need to believe it? The Flintstones had one as a pet.
for such is the Kingdom of Fred and Wilma." Amen.
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....and a temple carving from Cambodia....
Hey, can I turn this in for distance learning credits?
My kid sincerely believes that 2+2=5 and I'll be dammed if I will allow any teacher to mark him down for his sincerely held belief!
