Review of Discovery Institute's Evolution Textbook 756
Darwinned writes "Intelligent Design is still a hot topic, as evidenced by recent legislation mandating that it be taught in school. Pro-ID group Discovery Institute has released an evolution textbook for use in schools, but a review shows it to be chock full of bad science and questionable reasoning. 'The book doesn't only promote stupidity, it demands it. In every way except its use of the actual term, this is a creationist book, but its authors are expecting that legislators and the courts will be too stupid to notice that, or to remember that the Supreme Court has declared teaching creationism an unconstitutional imposition of religion.'"
Table Of Contents (Score:5, Funny)
2 - The Great Flood (Where are all the Unicorns?)
3 - Jesus, Dinosaur Wrangler
4 - Darwin, What a Jerk.
5 - The Scientific Method - Hooey or Baloney?
Yeah (Score:1, Funny)
"The book doesn't only promote stupidity, it demands it."
What were people expecting? A book made by stupid people to promote intelligence?
I'm sorry (Score:4, Funny)
are you suggestion that there is any occasion where it is proper to diss the volcano god?
What the hell is wrong with you- do you want to be responsible for the entire town burning down?
don't you care about your neighbors or family at all?
dang- move far away from everyone before you say anything like that again please.
Science...It Works.... (Score:5, Funny)
I saw a t-shirt the other day that said:
SCIENCE
It Works, Bitches!
I thought it was funny...
Discovery Institute Takes on Gravity Myth (Score:3, Funny)
This story from the Seattle-area satire paper The Naked Loon seems relevant: Discovery Institute Takes on Gravity Myth [nakedloon.com]
Re:2 - The Great Flood (Where are all the Unicorns (Score:5, Funny)
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Re:2 - The Great Flood (Where are all the Unicorns (Score:5, Funny)
Since you seem like a friendly fellow I'll save you a little money. Every issue of the newsletter just contains the same two words, in large type on the front page, and nothing else.
Well, you remember how it all started? (Score:2, Funny)
We evolved in a world where it took about 20 hours/week to get everything we needed. People that bent their head down over a big leaf scratching symbols for very long got eaten by lions.
Pretty much, we're evolved to be beach bums, and all this 60 hour weeks doing the same thing in the same place all day long is a mental illness we only lapsed into in the last 10,000 years, a bare millesecond in evolutionary time.
I blame it on the women, myself - she kept complaining about the skin hut falling down until finally he got p'o'd and went figured out how to build with wood and stone just to get some peace.
But then he couldn't move the hut anymore, and he had to start planting grasses and tubers around the hut for food. Then his buddy's wife made him build a stone hut next door, then her friends got on their men, and pretty soon you had a town, and that was the end of the good old days...its been little pink houses ever since.
Re:So let them. (Score:3, Funny)
Or that, chemically and mathematically, life on Earth only has a 1:1,200,000,000,000,000,000 chance of happening the way evolutionists predict?
Wow!!!
There are probably more than that number of planetary systems in the universe, so there's better than a 1:1 chance of life existing by biochemical and mathematical chance.
I think your number is exagerated, or you pulled it out of your ass, but if it's accurate, you just proved that it's LIKELY that life would evolve from nothing somewhere in the universe.
Thanks for doing the hard part... :-)
Re:2 - The Great Flood (Where are all the Unicorns (Score:5, Funny)
I've met many creationists who, for example, thought that fossils were put there because of the flood and they just happen to line up in what appears to be a historical record because God is testing their faith.
To coin a meme (Score:3, Funny)
Evolution vs Intelligent Design
Darwin vs Darfail, basically, yeah?
Re:2 - The Great Flood (Where are all the Unicorns (Score:5, Funny)
if people really want to be so dense that they make up bullshit like that i say we just have fun with them....
Re:2 - The Great Flood (Where are all the Unicorns (Score:2, Funny)
Think again! (Score:3, Funny)
Not forcing -- oh really?
You probably haven't seen this news article [fexr.com] -- but we all knew it was coming!
The proponents of the progressive agenda are finally showing their hand... Be afraid! Be very afraid!