Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution 344
somanyrobots writes with this excerpt from the Dallas News:
"In a major defeat for social conservatives, a sharply divided State Board of Education voted Thursday to abandon a longtime state requirement that high school science teachers cover what some critics consider to be 'weaknesses' in the theory of evolution. Under the science curriculum standards recommended by a panel of science educators and tentatively adopted by the board, biology teachers and biology textbooks would no longer have to cover the 'strengths and weaknesses' of Charles Darwin's theory that man evolved from lower forms of life. Texas is particularly influential to textbook publishers because of the size of its market, so this could have a ripple effect on textbooks used in other states as well."
Hi Texas (Score:3, Funny)
Welcome to the civilized world.
Re:Science includes BOTH strengths and weaknesses (Score:2, Funny)
Really?
"Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, 'God' if you will, is pushing them down," [theonion.com]
Heck, even Isaac Newton knew better:
"To your second query I answer that the motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone but were impressed by an intelligent agent." [wikipedia.org]
Clearly, Americans should be taught Intelligent Falling alongside Intelligent Design
Re:Science includes BOTH strengths and weaknesses (Score:5, Funny)
Now now, there's no need to bring RMS [wikipedia.org] into this...
Re:Fracking Halleluja (Score:2, Funny)
You heathens are allll gonna regret this. How little do you realise the gravity of the mistake you're making. *shakes head*
- God
Re:Fracking Halleluja (Score:3, Funny)
Actually my first thought when reading the summary was "Thank God". Then the irony of that thought hit me :)
Re:Fracking Halleluja (Score:3, Funny)
After all we've seen some people haven't evolved as fast as we hoped they would.
Re:Science includes BOTH strengths and weaknesses (Score:3, Funny)
"Perhaps because the theory of evolution has had a profound impact on Western thought"
Whereas Eastern thought says "yeah, we knew that all along"???
Re:Fracking Halleluja (Score:5, Funny)
Pshhhh haven't you heard? Gravity is just a theory....
I guess.. (Score:1, Funny)
that the most fit science education survives in the long run :-) at the moment that is the one taught everywhere else on the globe than in the south states of US.
Re:Fracking Halleluja (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fracking Halleluja (Score:5, Funny)
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It proves you exist, and therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
Re:God into Tech (Score:5, Funny)
404: Prayer Not Found
Re:Fracking Halleluja (Score:2, Funny)
Evolution vs. Thunderbird (Score:2, Funny)
I actually support Evolution and Thunderbird. Each has its virtues and downfalls. Evolution's integration with Exchange systems saves me from the horrors of OWA, while Thunderbird's extensibility makes it extremely flexible.
So, what does the Texas Board of Education use as a back-end for their mail system?
Wait, what was the summary again??? And why is Evolution capitalized in the article's title???
Re:Fracking Halleluja (Score:3, Funny)
Hell is a 5-star hotel, but they're overbooked and you have to share the room with a whiny, celibate Paris Hilton.
Re:Science includes BOTH strengths and weaknesses (Score:3, Funny)
I found this rather hilarious. You might like it too. Creation Science 101 [youtube.com].
A guy called Roy Zimmerman sings about teaching creationism.