West Virginia passes bill allowing intelligent design to be taught in high school biology classes
West Virginia passes bill allowing intelligent design to be taught in high school biology classes
Underpaid high school teacher: “Any questions on the lesson?”
Student: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
Schoolteacher answer: Wha?
you read the old testament? he is pretty malevolent
As a way to show that the theory is absurd, right? Right?
It’s not even a theory in the scientific sense, like the theory of evolution is. There is no evidence involved, nor experimental data. Intelligent design was created as an “answer” to evolution, nothing more. It could be taught in a theological class, not biology.
It's even better than that... We do have proof of 'intelligent design', except the intelligence doing the designing was people. Virtually all of our food was cultivated over centuries to be the way it is today. We literally forced evolution to happen to make bananas, tomatoes, corn, wheat, livestock, etc.
Pastafarianism needs a revival.
West Virginia learning nothing from Kansas doung the same dumb shit with their board of education two decades ago sounds about right.
Also, it seems that legislators don't know the difference between a scientific theory which is supported by evidence and a layman's theory which is a hypothesis.
Religious extremists will always work to propagate their beliefs by coopting state resources: in this case, the education system. They know their ideas can't stand on their own merits, so they instead work to weasel their way in through forced prayer in school, teaching of religious ideas in science class, and of course, censorship of school libraries. It is theft of our taxpayer dollars to support their proselytization, which is ironic because some of these creeps are the same people raving about welfare queens and food stamps.
West Virginia learning nothing from Kansas doung the same dumb shit with their board of education two decades ago sounds about right.
They learned that they can get away with it, and that's the only lesson these Nat-C's care about.
Jesus Christ. This dumb shit, AGAIN? They were utterly humiliated decades ago with this nonsense.
Wow, I really thought we were beyond this. Here we are going back in time 20 years.
While I know the people behind laws like this would never care, here is a video I really enjoy by featuring Richard Dawkins.
That was a good watch, thank you.
The one-sentence legislation now declares that “no local school board, school superintendent, or school principal shall prohibit a public school classroom teacher from discussing and answering questions from students about scientific theories of how the universe and/or life came to exist.”
Seems like a really weird thing to make into a law. Does West Virginia codify any other part of their curriculum into a statute?
"Creationism is not a scientific theory. Next question?"
My thoughts exactly.
So they're not ordering new text books (yet) they're just allowing teachers to bring it up, and answer questions.
Sounds like it will open the door for crackpot teachers, but it's not "being taught" in the school. Definitely a slippery-slope, hopefully not many teachers indulge.
What's amusing is how the Nat C's are confused about what evolution entails - it does not cover the Big Bang or abiogenesis. But if you get into discussions (if you can call them that) with these types, they will typically use strawmen phrases such as "Molecules to Man" in reference to science.
All they usually do is just repeat a bunch of Gish Gallop horse manure that is just quite a thing to behold in its combined arrogance and ignorance.
“So, students, does anyone have an argument against intelligent design? Yes, Billy?”
“Yeah, the balls are on the outside.”
Yeah, we evolved that way because it's apparently slightly more advantageous to keep sperm just slightly colder than internal body temperature, even though it creates a higher risk of injury. An intelligent designer would have made sperm that can handle warmer temperatures.
sperm
Is this happening in states where DNC is in power?
Tell me ' both sides are same' again.
Well at least that will be one group of students that my kids won't need to compete against in college and beyond.
If ever there was a slippery slope/groomer argument to be made.
Intelligent design takes all 20 seconds to explain, 5 seconds if you talk fast.
Don't forget that God planted dinosaur remains into the Earth to test our faith.
Come on! That was a joke! Like when he told Abraham he had to sacrifice his kid to prove his faith and then God jumped out at the last minute and says, "Stop! I was kidding! I totally got you with that one!"
He's such a kidder!
I do not think you need even 5 seconds to say “God did it”
The solution to these "stealth" ID bills is to recruit Scientologists and NOI teachers to instruct children on the origins of life on Earth. That'd be funny at least.
You see, children, the mad scientist Yakub created white people as an enemy of God. No, No, No, it's Xenu who authored evil on earth by trapping the spirits of aliens in volcanoes.
Looks like his noodly appendage is about to reach out to West Virginia.
This sucks for the kids that were already going to fight in the water wars of the 2030s and WWIII, because why not add a new christian crusade to the list.
Pra ba jeeba.
People working hard making sure kids can get mixed messages in school, while not ever learning about how their genitals work.
Love to just fuck with young people by teaching them absolute nonsense for a year or four.
Can't wait to hear about how the AP Bio exam has gone woke.