https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/14/local-florida-school-board-rej/ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:24:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/14/local-florida-school-board-rej/#comment-3950 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:24:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/14/local-florida-school-board-rej/#comment-3950 What are you evolutonist religionists afraid of? If Creation is foolishness, it will be exposed. If it has validity, it should be pursued.Also please remember it is still call the “Theory” of Evolution for good reason. Please don’t be so closed minded.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/14/local-florida-school-board-rej/#comment-3949 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:38:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/14/local-florida-school-board-rej/#comment-3949 In America, we don’t tell idiots to shut up and go away. We check their bank accounts, and see if they have funding for us. If they do, then we tell them everything they believe is really true.We don’t care what they think, or how stupid they are, as long as we get some of their money. We get funds, they get a Royal Arse-Kissing. Everyone’s Happy.If they don’t have money, then we tell them to shut up and go away.In Florida, lots of batty old fundies have money. They get option number 1.That’s your lesson in American psychology for today.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/14/local-florida-school-board-rej/#comment-3948 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:27:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/14/local-florida-school-board-rej/#comment-3948 Tavis,The system in the UK is somewhat different in that the curriculum is decided on a national basis by the people who should be deciding on such matters, namely the teachers, experts in the subject and employers. Occasionally we do get some idiots saying that ID/Creationism ought to be part of the curriculum. They essentially get told to go away and stop being idiots.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/14/local-florida-school-board-rej/#comment-3947 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:22:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/14/local-florida-school-board-rej/#comment-3947 Just once I’d like someone at one of these meetings to just say “Uhm wait, is this some kind of a joke? Are you people actually serious about this? We’re talking about flying ghosts and people that live to be 500 years old and dragons and monsters and giants and floods and shit.”I simply do not understand why any education system even entertains the notion of hearings on this subject.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/14/local-florida-school-board-rej/#comment-3946 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:00:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/14/local-florida-school-board-rej/#comment-3946 “Board member Ginger Littleton said she could not support the resolution. She believes this is more of a political move than an educational statement.”Although this is a start, it’s a cop out to say that it is just “a political move” because it is also a religious one. This resolution is not objectionable because it is intermingling politics with the state; it is objectionable because it is intermingling religion with the state. And we all need to keep that firmly in mind.

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