RE: The Statler Waldorf Balcony
October 21, 2010 at 6:36 pm
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2010 at 6:40 pm by orogenicman.)
Quote:Well somebody has been watching "Inherit The Wind" too much. The trial was not even dealing with whether or not you can teach evolution in the classroom. Rather it was on whether the use of a certain Evolutionary Textbook (one that even viewed whites as the superior race) violated the Butler Act. Scopes' lawyer pleaded with the Jury on the final day to actually find his client guilty, only so he (the lawyer) would not have to take the witness stand. Scopes was found guilty by the court for violating the Butler Act (So they did lose this trial like I said). He was later aquitted by the Supreme Court in Tennessee on a technicality. You shouldn't always look to Hollywood for your information on historical matters. I stand by my original position that judges should never decide what is and is not Science.
The point is that the "jury" is no longer out with regard to the theory of evolution. The Dover trial made it very clear that ID is a mask for creationism, misrepresents science, and is a religious belief, a fact on which the Supreme Court has already ruled. What they decided was what ID and creationism was not. What they are not is science, and where they don't belong is in public school science class. Yes, SW, we are all aware that nothing would make creationists happier than to keep the courts from protecting the rights of Americans.
'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
