(July 30, 2013 at 7:54 am)festive1 Wrote: What I really don't understand is that evolution is already being taught in Kentucky schools. Per the article evolution has been taught since the last revision of academic standards passed in 2006. What is being proposed is just an update with the latest research. So what is the big deal?
Same with the climate change. They currently teach weather and ecology, just not the link of human behavior contributing to global climate change.
People are crazy and want everyone to join them.
Evolution has been taught in Kentucky at least since the 1960s when I was in elementary school, and probably longer. In fact, I never once heard an objection to it until I attended college at Eastern Kentucky University in the md-1970s. And that was one person who was a Baptist who mysteriously took a human evolution class in the anthropology department, and freaked out in class when she suddenly "realized' what the class was about (with that course title, how could she not know? duh).
It would not surprise me a bit if this new anti-evolution and anti-global warming push is being promoted by the Creation Museum (and others).
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
