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Really? Been to a public school lately? Pretty soon girls who are girls and boys who are boys won't be allowed to attend.
But if you identify as a can of ginger ale that can tap dance lesbian dance theory while being addressed as mister-sister wonky butt ... you'll get a participation trophy in lieu of a diploma.
Oh wait. I think lesbians aren't allowed anymore. They've jumped the shark and aren't cool enough.
In case anyone doubted that the push for creationism is anything but pushback from conservatives who are scared stiff that the world is changing...
I know, I know - if we call the dumb hicks out for being dumb hicks, they get pouty and stubborn and double down on the dumb-hickery just to teach us a lesson.
But in the name of all that's holy and unholy, Arizona, could you try to not embrace the stereotype? I've been to Phoenix, you have what looks like a fairly advanced civilization, what is with this?
You do realize that there are a lot of Dems who are religious and believe in Creationism, right? You're calling people from your own party "dumb hicks". Great job.
You do realize that there are a lot of Dems who are religious and believe in Creationism, right? You're calling people from your own party "dumb hicks". Great job.
I'm a Democrat now? Comes as a bit of a surprise. And yes, plenty of Democrats are dumb hicks, but it's pretty damn rare to hear of a Democrat politician arguing in favor of creationism being taught in science class.
You do realize that there are a lot of Dems who are religious and believe in Creationism, right? You're calling people from your own party "dumb hicks". Great job.
Not many. Creationism is mostly the belief of evangelicals who tend to be republican. A lot of christians believe in evolution. A LOT. I don't know about long ago, but I'm in my 40s, went to Catholic schools. I have a degree in Cell and Molecular biology from a Jesuit institution. I was taught evolution my whole life. Just with the added "God Led" Evolution.
Personally, believe what you want about Creation. Have at it. But it's not science so keep it out of science classes unless you are in a private evangelical school. I'd be OK if it was taught in a class on cultural or religious studies. But it doesn't fit the definition of science. It shouldn't even be mentioned in science class (in a public school).
Not many. Creationism is mostly the belief of evangelicals who tend to be republican. A lot of christians believe in evolution. A LOT. I don't know about long ago, but I'm in my 40s, went to Catholic schools. I have a degree in Cell and Molecular biology from a Jesuit institution. I was taught evolution my whole life. Just with the added "God Led" Evolution.
Personally, believe what you want about Creation. Have at it. But it's not science so keep it out of science classes unless you are in a private evangelical school. I'd be OK if it was taught in a class on cultural or religious studies. But it doesn't fit the definition of science. It shouldn't even be mentioned in science class (in a public school).
This.
Creationism is almost exclusively an evangelical/fundamentalist belief and creationism in public school science classrooms is almost exclusively a Republican policy.
Even if I was an Evolutionist, I would believe a Creationist over a Flat-Earth person, even if that Flat-Earth person was a Creationist.
They aren't really that different. If you can believe all of modern science is one big conspiracy to suppress the truth that the earth is 6,000 years old and we are all descendant from one family that got off a boat 4400 years ago with two of every species, it's not far fetched to believe they are also suppressing the truth that the earth is flat.
Dinosaurs were probably not on the Ark but there is no proof contrary either. Does anyone know how long ago the great flood happened? Keeping an open mind is a good thing but teaching it in school isn't the place to impress that it is an undeniable truth.
Teaching that would be right up there with the Theory of Evolution, the theory that students are taught not as a theory but as a truth that they are descended from apes. The theory has led to scientific breakthroughs in genetics but there is still the missing link. So we are 98% similar to apes but no one talks about being 97% similar to frogs.
It never did, as described in scriptures. There was no ark. It's a fairy tale (theory) until there is empirical (scientific) evidence of its existence. I can show you thousands of books full of people, creatures, places, and events that never happened. I can show you historical fiction that is set in real places. "Gone With The Wind" took place in Georgia. Atlanta is a real place that really did get burned by a real Yankee army. Tara, however, was almost entirely fabrication, outside the fact that some people built really large houses with high ceilings and columns on the front, some examples of which are still observable today.
Show me an ark, or evidence thereof, and I will believe there was an ark. Until then, there was no ark. There is merely the belief of a subset of the human race that wants it to be true, and that sort of unsupportable nonsense should not be taught in school except in comparitive religion classes, and then as theory and not fact.
They aren't really that different. If you can believe all of modern science is one big conspiracy to suppress the truth that the earth is 6,000 years old and we are all descendant from one family that got off a boat 4400 years ago with two of every species, it's not far fetched to believe they are also suppressing the truth that the earth is flat.
I was meaning to ask about that. Since the Noah family was the only one who survived, that must mean all modern people of all races are the products of incest and inbreeding, and bastards to boot.
This is a more compelling theory than that we all came from Adam and Eve, since we know Cain went east of Eden and took a wife who bore a son, Enoch, and that the residents of the Land of Nod are not mentioned further. At least that would have meant we came from members of two different gene pools.
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