are you KIDDING me?

[mimesere]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509719,00.html

Really? We want creationism to be credited as a SCIENCE now?

Do these people actually understand what science is?

I'm so mad I could spit.

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[basingstoke.livejournal.com]

You're just hearing about this now?

We had a big trial in Dover, PA a couple of years ago. There's a movie about it and all.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

About the Texas legislature bill? Yes, definitely the first I've heard of it.

I heard rumblings about the PA trial, and it made me mad then too.

[basingstoke.livejournal.com]

It's the strategy everywhere. Discount science, because clearly science has to be wrong for religion to be right.

Pfaugh.

[spasticat.livejournal.com]

(holds out spittoon)

GAH! ARGH! and WTF???

That's not science, it's religious theory!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I knoooooow. It makes me kind of crazy.

[kidchyron.livejournal.com]

As a quite religious person...

I AGREE. ^_^

(But I don't think that bill has much of a chance of passing. I can't imagine there are that many people in the Texas legislature in either party who don't realize that passing it would turn Texas into a training sinkhole, with people from Texas incapable of getting research or teaching positions outside of the state. I'd be shocked if this was anything more than one moronic "culture warrior"'s pet publicity stunt.)

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I don't think the bill has much of a chance of passing either, but it offends me that it's gotten even this far or that taxpayer money has been wasted on it. Like, really? REALLY, texas lawmaker guy? And then I sort of flail.

[kidchyron.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hard to believe that in the 21st century idiots like that still manage to get themselves elected to office. Who we really have to blame is all the OTHER idiots, the ones who are nodding their heads reading this story and going, "Yeah, you go Mr. Lawmaker Man, you show them uppity eggheads" and will no doubt vote to re-elect him. [sigh] I don't so much flail as kinda weep. (Okay, maybe a little bit of flail.)

[arallara.livejournal.com]

Do these people actually understand what science is?

No, they really, really just don't. *SIGH* My brother is an Uber Science Nerd, and we have spent many long conversations ranting together about this. I mean, it's not like I'm particularly science-oriented or even intuitively good at it, and I can easily see how fundamentally they lack understanding of what science IS. And what bums me out is that I think that ignorance is shared by waaaaaaay too many Americans (and don't even get me started on my rant about shitty public school science education), and so they are easily swayed by the creationists' demands for equal time because it's only fair. Gah. It makes me froth!

[settiai]

*headdesk*

That's the South for you. I have such a love/hate relationship with this part of the country.

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

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[auroramama]

No, they really don't know what science is. If they did, they'd understand that you need to be able to make predictions that may or may not turn out to be correct. If there's nothing that can disprove it, it's not science. It might be true, but who cares, if we'll never know?

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

FWIW, an MSc in Creationism would be worth bugger all in academia, surely.