Just when you thought the Kansas schools system was safe for religious believers, the Board of Education takes an interest in keeping faith OUT of the schools.
Well, one particular faith.
Amazing turnaround. Can religious belief be taught alongside science or not?
In closing, as Orson Scott Card famously said, in reference to choosing between creation or evolution, “…whether you were created OR evolved, IT’S OVER!”
Sailboat
Somebody needs to go back to j-school and learn to write a fucking story, even if it’s a stupid one.
Where’s Bricker to start a good “War against Pasta” thread?
Agreed. I was fucking lost.
This is a blatant assault on the believers in the Invisible Pink Unicorn! Break out the placards! Protest!
Er… No it’s not. Evolution is happening all around us, and has direct importance to us in the field of drug-resistant germs and pesticide resistant insects.
And creation has profound implications about the universe and how we should interact with it.
Well, if there’s one thing that can be said about Connie Morris, and still be thought charitable, it’s that she has no sense of humor whatsoever.
So on that point, I’m not at all surprised.
And yeah, the article was for shit.
But hey, we did pass concealed carry, finally!
I’m going to carry a Beretta Cheetah in the hollowed-out pages of a bible. So any time there’s trouble, I can say “Let me consult the Good Book”…
What an astonishing non-issue. A school board member, with no authority over the teacher or the school’s administration, saw a comic she didn’t like, and whined to the principal. The teacher was not censured in any way, and the comic was not removed. So who gives a shit? Why is this even news?
I agree with his statement, but probably not for reasons of which he would approve.
Now *that *was funny.
I simply cannot endorse the spud lifestyle.
I think we’ve identified one person who will someday dwell at the olive garden.
You say that like it’s a bad thing…I could easily live in a semi-quiet corner of an Olive Garden, working via wireless laptop connection and having soup, salad, and breadsticks all day long. So long as I get unlimited refills.
Forget teaching evolution or creationism in Kansas school’s…teach some freaking writting classes!! That article was horrible! It read like a bad “Three’s Company” episode…not that I know what good one read like…
I see no need to add more classes to the curriculum simply to add extra people to the staffs of lawyers.
I think this was my favorite line in the whole shitty article:
"Mousley said he doesn’t teach students about the Flying Spaghetti Monster."
Well mine is:
The state’s new science standards were hanging on the teacher’s door?
The problem is that they have to get all the story into one sentence. A saner person would write:
“State Board of Education member Connie Morris took exception Wednesday to a picture of a made-up creature that satirizes the state’s new science standards. The picture was hanging on a Stucky Middle School teacher’s door.”
But that’s two sentences, and you can only have once sentence (no matter how long or how badly crafted) in the opening paragraph of a news story.
In closing, as Orson Scott Card famously said, in reference to choosing between creation or evolution, “…whether you were created OR evolved, IT’S OVER!”
In trying to be pithy, I probably stripped out too much context for that to make sense.
In his Secular Humanist Revival speech, Card asked the audience to write down their favorite scientific principle and he would read their submissions aloud from the pulpit. The technique was supposed to mirror “testimony” in a revival church.
One woman wrote “I like that I can choose whether I was created or evolved.”
Card responded, “Now I am sorry, but you can NOT. Whether you were created OR evolved, IT’S OVER!”
Card meant that you can NOT choose what already happened, regardless of your feelings – you were either evolved or created, but whichever occurred, it already happened and is now a matter of historical fact. Our ignorance of that fact, or our feelings about it, would not change it.
He did not mean evolution has ended.
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