Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law 1574
H0D_G writes "The US state of Louisiana has passed the 'Science Education Act,' a piece of legislation that could allow Intelligent design to be taught in schools. From the article: 'The act is designed to slip ID in "through the back door"'"
I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. (Score:5, Funny)
...we all know how Christianity feels about slipping things in through the back door.
Louisiana a land of believers? (Score:5, Funny)
Makes sense...after you've experienced the great flood (Katrina), why shouldn't you believe everything else in the Bible?
This is good news... (Score:5, Funny)
.. as it also opens the door for the teachings of our noodly saviour
As a member of the Church of FSM (Score:5, Funny)
You mean... (Score:5, Funny)
intelligent design (ID) - the proposition that life is too complicated. Go go Ganesh!
Stop believing, start thinking.
Renounce your blashemous faith! (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Louisiana (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Louisiana,
Please do not slip anything through my child's back door. Intelligent design or otherwise.
Yours,
A Parent.
PS: I look forward to a pirate-based global warming curriculum.
ahh, the back door... (Score:4, Funny)
... right where ID belongs.
Re:Am I missing something (Score:5, Funny)
Its OK, no education is involved either.
Re:Louisiana a land of believers? (Score:5, Funny)
"didn't some researchers or archeologists hypothesize that the first great flood happened because of a breach of natural dikes (hills or mountains) that ended up flooding a large low lying area?"
Quick, someone tell Pat Robertson that it was the "dikes" and not the "dykes" that were responsible for it all. His entire theology rests on a typo!!
Re:When did we PROVE evolution to be true??? (Score:3, Funny)
Interestingly, one of the best known "intelligent design" textbook was created by doing something along these lines:
$ sed 's/creationism/intelligent design/g' creationist_textbook.txt
Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if this is something that can be reliably studied?
I think getting the children for the study might be a bit of a problem.
Competing for market share (Score:5, Funny)
I'll say. I haven't been asked out by either side in months.
Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. (Score:4, Funny)
It is? Right on! Fuck you Jesus!
Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. (Score:3, Funny)
why is it that shell fish are ok now, but homosexuality is not?
Shellfish taste great. Anal tastes like shit.
Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. (Score:5, Funny)
And youd be DAMNED RIGHT.
If god exists, he created evolution.
If god doesnt exist, evolution created him through us.
Its a win-win.
Im getting a job at Andersen's.
Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. (Score:5, Funny)
But what about the construction worker, indian chief, cowboy, and biker?
YYYYYYY M C A!
Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. (Score:3, Funny)
AH! :
if god.exists()
{
god.create(evolution);
}
else
{
evolution.create(god);
}
And that sort of suggests that god and evolution are entities of the same class or at least share a method.
Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. (Score:1, Funny)
Those folks really need to learn their basic science and anatomy. Creation doesn't happen when you use the back door.
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Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. (Score:2, Funny)
If someone could some me some kinds of cross species link that show how we derived one from another then that would be a different story.
But in my view evolution is like saying that you make apples into seed weed in a matter of a few million years. That to me just seems a little too far fetched. I just see evolution of the only way of explaining existence and eliminating a designer.
I beg the question, if man did not invent computers and software, would have it come into existence in a billion years?
Re:It's all a moot point anyway (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You mean... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. (Score:4, Funny)
Solution: Rename "Science" to "Pseudo-science" (Score:3, Funny)
Let states pass legislation like this, on the grounds that they rename their science curriculum and classes to reflect what they're teaching: pseudo-science. That way, it's clear to everyone (especially universities) which students (potential employees) have had a proper science curriculum, and which have taken pseudo-science classes that teach them that non-scientific concepts need to be considered as legitimate alternatives to scientific ones. I could care less if a state wants to fuck up all of its children, and raise a generation that can't properly apply the scientific method, just as I could care less that there are millions of parents that do exactly the same thing to their kids with or without good schools today. But at least make it clear to everyone else what's going on and call it what it is.