Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets

[Adsos Letter]

Source: The new York Times
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Published: March 3, 2010

Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools.

“Our kids are being presented theories as though they are facts,” said State Representative Tim Moore of Kentucky.

In Kentucky, a bill recently introduced in the Legislature would encourage teachers to discuss “the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories,” including “evolution, the origins of life, global warming and human cloning.”

The bill, which has yet to be voted on, is patterned on even more aggressive efforts in other states to fuse such issues. In Louisiana, a law passed in 2008 says the state board of education may assist teachers in promoting “critical thinking” on all of those subjects.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/science/earth/04climate.html?ref=science

[northofdenali]

1. What part of knowledge don't they understand?

According to Miriam Websters: ": principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses"

TESTING OF HYPOTHESES.

Dumbasses.

[Orsino]

6. They don't want anyone questioning their choices of gods or cars, n/t

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

2. Not much different from Sunday school

“Our kids are being presented theories as though they are facts,”

[Birthmark]

3. They had better throw chemistry...and gravity...and...

...the rest of Science in there, too. Science is chock full of theories!

[sakabatou]

4. Oh for the love of the FSM...

[Swamp Rat]

5. LOL! We're doomed.

:D

[Burma Jones]

7. These people are in the same league as Holocaust deniers

Maybe we need some critical thinking on whether slavery was good or bad for Africans or maybe we need to consider that the Native Americans needed to have Europeans invade their lands to boost their immune systems and, really, wasn't the world a better place when we burned witches? We should really have an open and healthy debate on these subjects.

[The Straight Story]

8. The climate has always been changing, not sure how they could deny - used to be warmer

then colder, then warmer.....shit happens.