the monkey trials all over again

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I've been fairly heavily involved in this over the past couple of weeks. I even went so far as to write a quick diary over on DKos on it, demonstrating the true motives of the individuals who are pushing, once again, for this ID to come back into our science classrooms. Have a look if you like:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/6/141416/5445

It's Monday, and I'm up to my neck in work right now. I'll have much more to post on this when I have a chance. But in short, I'm pretty damn bitter in general right now, even though the majority of us evolution advocates pretty much saw this coming before last November's elections. We were able to vote out these fucks once before after they did this in '99, but they successfully flew right under the radar. My old hometown of Wichita is represented by one of these fundie wingnutters, Kathy Martin, which I've posted some pretty interesting quotes by her over on my diary.

The bottom line is since they have the majority, there's little that can be done. The only thing us Kansans can do is vote them out and keep them out for good. It's a major fucking embarrassment to our science community as a whole.

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Originally posted by josh4 i can't believe even in the 21st century crap like this is still going on

That's pretty much word for word what I was going to say (er, before I saw that you'd already posted it that is).

The trouble with these creationist / ID / anti-evolutionary theories is that if you don't debate against them then the interest groups that support such perspectives are allowed to propogate their theories freely without objective criticism, but if you do debate against them then you're providing the misleading picture to the public that there's an evenhanded debate to be had (or, at the very least, that the bullshit they spout is actually worth responding to). Quite the conundrum, but I'd support the stance of any self-respecting scientist who thought that this debate wasn't even worth sitting in on. Perhaps rather than providing the fundies with the very public conflict they're looking for, it might be within the best interests of the scientific community (and thus the educational community) to allow them to say what they want while laughing and pointing condescendingly from the sidelines...

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Originally posted by Renegade That's pretty much word for word what I was going to say (er, before I saw that you'd already posted it that is). The trouble with these creationist / ID / anti-evolutionary theories is that if you don't debate against them then the interest groups that support such perspectives are allowed to propogate their theories freely without objective criticism, but if you do debate against them then you're providing the misleading picture to the public that there's an evenhanded debate to be had (or, at the very least, that the bullshit they spout is actually worth responding to). Quite the conundrum, but I'd support the stance of any self-respecting scientist who thought that this debate wasn't even worth sitting in on. Perhaps rather than providing the fundies with the very public conflict they're looking for, it might be within the best interests of the scientific community (and thus the educational community) to allow them to say what they want while laughing and pointing condescendingly from the sidelines...

That's the brilliant new tactic that's been working quite well over the last few years. The best example is with Richard Clark's negative commentary on Bush's handling of terrorism before the 9/11 commission, when he was more favorable on Clinton's policies. They unleashed a campaign to make him look like a partisan liberal out to promote his book so the truth would be questioned. Then after the election was long over, classified documents finally were "safe" enough to be declassified that showed Clark had informed Condi Rice well before 9/11 on how urgent dealing with Al Qaeda was. (Search button isn't working right now, but I posted this previously).

The evolution & global warming denials are just plain silly and counterproductive. We might as well drop teaching science in schools if we're going to ignore the people who are most knowledgeable and well trained in these topics and just continue stating as fact that the Grand Canyon was carved by the flood in the Noah's Ark story without any proof at all of that.

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This is ridicilous!

See what you left-wing-funides have done! You've driven the right-wing-fundies to such desperate measures its pathetic.

Just bring back the bible into schools, and teach evolution the right way.


Seriously, this is sadder than 1890.

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Originally posted by Yoepus Seriously, this is sadder than 1890.

van Gogh's death?

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Originally posted by Psy-T the monkey trials all over again

Funny story, but there is a town in the North of England called Hartlepool and in the 1800s (during the Napolionic wars) they actually hung a monkey for being a spy! A French ship got shipwrecked just off the coast and the only survivor was a pet monkey which, (for some bizaar reason known only to the French) was dressed up in military regalia. Not knowing what French people looked like, but naturally assuming that this ugly creature is very likely to be what a French person would look like, they believed it to be a French spy. They had a trial and everything where they asked it questions, but as the monkey's English wasn't too good (neither was its French probably) they decided the only decent thing to do with a french person that has just washed up on your shore was to hang it!

I shit you not!

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It's just sad how the american board of education is more and more turning into a propaganda distribution machine.

Seems like whenever people disagree with something, they can just whine "hey, I don't want my kids learning about that in school", and it ends up getting censored. Since when are these people specialists?

It's strange how a great country can have so many backwards people.