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RE: Texas bill Prohibiting discrimination of Intelligent Design
March 20, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Texas and intelligence in the same post?
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RE: Texas bill Prohibiting discrimination of Intelligent Design
March 20, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Does "The probability of this being true is low and therefore we cannot deem it acceptable to allocate our limited resources towards this pursuit" count as discrimination?
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RE: Texas bill Prohibiting discrimination of Intelligent Design
March 20, 2011 at 1:14 pm
I would expect a state like Texas to protect stupid people from discrimination but not gays.
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RE: Texas bill Prohibiting discrimination of Intelligent Design
March 21, 2011 at 12:04 am
(March 20, 2011 at 12:48 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLooku...ill=HB2454
This bill was introduced in Texas legislature by State rep. Bill Zedler. Here the crucial part:
"PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON
RESEARCH RELATED TO INTELLIGENT DESIGN.
An institution of higher education may not discriminate against or penalize in any manner, especially with regard to employment or academic support, a faculty member or student based on the faculty member’s or student’s conduct of research relating to the theory of intelligent design or other alternate theories of the origination and development of organisms."
The only discrimination from the scientific process is the filtering out of theories with no basis in reality. Research ID all you like, knock yourself out Texas. Gee look at that watch next to that bacterial flagellum....mmm I wonder?
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RE: Texas bill Prohibiting discrimination of Intelligent Design
March 21, 2011 at 1:21 am
I laughed... And then I wept.
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