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Some Sick Atheist Demeans Kids … Photographic Evidence Destroyed
This is a repost of an item from my old blog. The Twin Cities Creation Science Fair association usually posts “random” photographs of the children’s exhibits on their web site after the fair is over. You can go and see them for the last few years. (Don’t look for a place to click on this post, I don’t provide it here.)But this year, something different happened, and if you go to the site where the photographs are supposed to be posted, you get this:
Interesting, huh?Now, to really get the context of this, you may need to read at least the blog post and the last six or so comments in a conversation going on here about home schooling.I’m not going to even attempt to explain this. Comments? Suggestions? Information? Valium?
Twin Cities Home Schooling Creationist Science Fair Photos
This is a repost of an item from my old blog.
The Twin Cities Home Schooling Creationist Science Fair at Har Mar Mall in Roseville, Minnesota happened last month. The organization that (at least partly) sponsors this event (Twin Cities Creation Science) usually posts photographs of the science fair, but this year they got into a tizzy about it for some reason and removed the photographs from their web site.
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Home School Creationist Science Fair: Har Mar Mall Feb 17 and 18 2007
This is a repost of an item from my old blog. 
The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge.
Proverbs 1:7This is an Absodoodly-don’t miss event! Har Mar Mall, Rosedale DistrictRoseville MinnesotaFeb 17 and 18 2007Exhibits must be set up between 8:30 and 10:00 am Saturday and will remain up until 4:00 pm SundayJudging begins at 10:00 am and finishes at about 12:30 pm SaturdayAccording to Russ McGlenn (the dapper gentlemen in the photo, shown here at the Har Mar Mall during a previous Creation Science Fair), of Adventure Safaris (facilitator and coordinating agency of the Home School Science Fair):”We need to train our students and ourselves to ask the right questions.”And he continues… Continue reading Home School Creationist Science Fair: Har Mar Mall Feb 17 and 18 2007
If you are eating or driking something now, don’t read this.
I’m serious. You can’t see this post until you put down your coffee and make sure your airways are clear. Then you can click on the heading and laugh, and cry, and everything…
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War on Science – intelligent design – Part 1
“This is the story of a battle between faith and knowledge…”The first in a series from the BBC Continue reading War on Science – intelligent design – Part 1
Antievolution resolutions spreading through northern Florida
At least nine county school boards in northern Florida have adopted resolutions calling for the state board of education “to revise the new Sunshine State Standards for Science such that evolution is not presented as fact, but as one of several theories,” according to a January 23, 2008, report from Florida Citizens for Science. These resolutions represent a backlash to a draft set of new state science standards, which are presently undergoing revision in response to comments from the public. The state board of education is expected to consider the revised draft set of standards at its meeting on February 19, 2008.
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New (Old) Science Book: The Bible
Crazy Floridians
For your amusement, a selection from the public comments on the fight over science standards in Florida. Continue reading Crazy Floridians
Florida Science Standards Current Links
The Grubbs and Gibbs Memorandum: Require A Religious Reading of the Evolutionary Record in Public Schools
As promised, I have more on the memorandum written by Francis Grubbs and David Gibbs. Grubbs is some kind of quack pseudo-scientist, and Gibbs is some kind of shyster lawyer, apparently. The memorandum is interesting … the real meat of it is buried in the last several paragraphs, so don’t fall asleep reading it! I’ve reproduced it here below, having used OCR to change the PDF file into text. The purpose of doing this onerous and thankless task is so that my fellow bloggers, or anyone else, can cut and paste from my transcription and thus make more use of the document than otherwise possible. The original file is here. And following is the cover letter and the memorandum, in all it’s glory. There may be some mistakes owing to the nature of OCR. Feel free to let me know if you spot any.UPDATE: Corrections made of the OCRT scan by Sam Howard of Rational Rant Continue reading The Grubbs and Gibbs Memorandum: Require A Religious Reading of the Evolutionary Record in Public Schools
Is a Florida Church Acting Illegally?
Apropos the fight over excellent science education (as opposed to creationism) in Florida schools, is it OK for a church, which I presume has religious non profit status, to engage actively in an attempt to sway elected officials? Continue reading Is a Florida Church Acting Illegally?
The Home Schooling Attitude: Part 1 of 1
This is Part 1 because there is more than one part. But I’m only going to do one of them, so it is Part 1 of 1. There is more than one “kind” of home schooler, home schooling parent, home schooling family, etc., and thus there are multiple attitudes. But a good chunk of the home schooling population, represented by these excerpts from their own rhetoric, are more than a little annoying, and are the reason why we should always be suspicious of home schooling and home schoolers until we see their credentials.
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Poor Bill Foster Reaps What He Sows
Today’s St. Petersburg Times has a letter from Bill Foster. Foster was the outgoing city councilman who wrote a letter to the school board opposing the teaching of modern Evolutionary Biology, or at least, the teaching of modern science without wrapping it in a medieval blanket of Christian Inquisitorial reasoning. Let’s have a look at Bills latest letter. Continue reading Poor Bill Foster Reaps What He Sows
NCSE News
Sorry, this is not as fresh and current as I would like, but you will still find it interesting. The National Center for Science Education has a news release covering a number of topics: Continue reading NCSE News