MN public school board chairwoman: Evolution is outdated because 'it was discovered in the 1800s'

[Soph0571]

According to the Star Tribune, Sue Kern spoke up during the meeting, saying she had a “question about evolution.”

“You know, Darwin’s theory was done in the mid-1800s and it’s never been proven,” she said. “So I’m wondering why we’re still teaching it.”

[link:https://deadstate.org/mn-public-school-board-chairwoman-evolution-was-discovered-in-the-1800s-so-why-still-teach-it/|]

Well, well, ain't she special
- see what I did there?

[vlyons]

1. The evidence for evolution has been proven many many times

I guess we have to throw out Pasteur's germ theory too, because it was described in the 1800's also. Let's throw out Newton's theory of gravity too, becauseit was described even earlier.

[tblue37]

2. Well, SHE is certainly evidence against evolution! nt

[rickford66]

3. Remember when they discovered gravity ?

[5X]

4. she needs to be asked: when did they "discover" your religion? n/t

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Ahhh...so all of the medical advances, figuring out what bateria was, and how they were ...

contaminating food, making people sick, etc. is all old news, thus, no longer valid? Where do these people come from and how in the world did they ever get out of school?

[bobbieinok]

6. SALLY Kern, legislator in OK, antiLGBTQ---any relation??

[Major Nikon]

7. Someone this stupid should be disqualified from having any role in education

[edhopper]

8. A woman who belives in a 2000 BC origin for life

says Evolution is outdated? What the Fuck!

[Major Nikon]

13. Young earth creationists also believe people lived to 900

The batshit craziness of the “theory” of YEC is ignorant beyond belief. However, I suppose one thing you can say for them is they can at least point to a reference for their crazy ideas. Those who want to distort that reference and roll with their own idea of hocus pocus creationism require a higher level of delusion.

[Chemisse]

9. It sure is hard to celebrate the diversity of humanity when it includes people like her. n/t

[BigmanPigman]

10. I just watched Inherit The Wind

on Wed. Someone get this woman a book about the real trial and the significance of the trial itself and how it was necessary for the country to move forward together on this issue.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. And how many centuries outdated is Christianity, that unproven "theory" ?

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(It's only a hypothesis, not a theory.)

[Major Nikon]

14. It doesn't even rise to the level of hypothesis

In science, a hypothesis is an untested idea with an accompanying rationale as to why that idea might be true. Creationism is simply a religious idea that requires a departure from rational thinking.

[trotsky]

12. It'S oNLy A tHEoRy!

[NeoGreen]

15. Punctuated Equilibrium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium

Punctuated Equilibrium
Punctuated equilibrium (also called punctuated equilibria) is a theory in evolutionary biology which proposes that once a species appears in the fossil record the population will become stable, showing little evolutionary change for most of its geological history. This state of little or no morphological change is called stasis. When significant evolutionary change occurs, the theory proposes that it is generally restricted to rare and geologically rapid events of branching speciation called cladogenesis. Cladogenesis is the process by which a species splits into two distinct species, rather than one species gradually transforming into another.

Punctuated equilibrium is commonly contrasted against phyletic gradualism, the idea that evolution generally occurs uniformly and by the steady and gradual transformation of whole lineages (called anagenesis). In this view, evolution is seen as generally smooth and continuous.

In 1972, paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould published a landmark paper developing their theory and called it punctuated equilibria. Their paper built upon Ernst Mayr's model of geographic speciation, I. Michael Lerner's theories of developmental and genetic homeostasis, and their own empirical research. Eldredge and Gould proposed that the degree of gradualism commonly attributed to Charles Darwin is virtually nonexistent in the fossil record, and that stasis dominates the history of most fossil species.

[trotsky]

16. The theory of gravity is even older.

It's still not proven either. Should we not teach that?

[Act_of_Reparation]

17. Believing an invisible wizard created the universe 6000 years ago is crazy.

Believing an invisible wizard created the universe 14 billion years ago is completely rational.

Or so says the people who believe an invisible wizard created the universe 14 billion years ago.

[struggle4progress]

18. Some other outdated things: the moon, fire, beer and cheese and bread, the law of gravity ...