Oh great. Kiel, Wisconsin, public schools are being pushed to include creationism.

[Archae]

It'll be in tomorrow's Sheboygan Press.

[hobbit709]

1. Will they also teach Lysenkoism and the Hollow Earth theories?

They have just as much evidence behind them.

[digonswine]

2. Pushed by whom?

It is getting harder to defend this state. We need to come back from ditching Feingold for Johnson--this does not help. I am in Shawano, where the right to be a bigoted young dink is currently being defined.

[JoePhilly]

3. Best way to kill Creationism is to try and teach it in schools.

Why?

1) Most of the dopes who push creationism also hate public school teachers. They think public schools should be abolished. These folks are apparently ok if a teacher they don't like teaches their kid religion. And yet they don't see how this could undo the indoctrination that they have been doing prior.

2) Creationism is really just an attack on evolution. All it does is try to find gaps in evolution, and then insert Jesus. Teaching creationism would open it up to a similar "gap analysis" ... and creationism does not have gaps, it has CHASMS and CANYONS. It does not predict anything ... and it explains even less.

These ultra religious dopes don't seem to grasp that when their "theory" is tested ... well, ONE, they will hate having their BELIEF called a THEORY ... and TWO, they won't be able to defend it.

[JPZenger]

4. If I have to teach anti-science, I'll just skip the subject

I was listening to a public radio interview on the subject of government interference in science education, particularly regarding global warming. The expert said that the typical reaction of a teacher is:

If I am being pressured to teach the anti-science view in addition to the scientific view on a particular matter, I am tempted to not teach that part of the subject at all.

[hobbit709]

6. Unfortunately the anti-science idiots would be perfectly happy with that.

[dembotoz]

5. know someone who wanted a job in that district

she was very impressed with what they were doing

i would guess bnow not so much

[Archae]

7. Turns out one woman (who homeschools, to boot,) wants it.

It's *HER* belief, and even though she doesn't have any kids in the schools, she still wants her crackpot belief taught as "science."

http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20120201/SHE0101/202010445/Kiel-School-Board-tackles-intelligent-design-?odyssey=mod|defcon|text|FRONTPAGE