Posted on 02/09/2006 4:08:37 AM PST by PatrickHenry
A squirt bottle of acetone is quite effective if you're a good shot.
Are "the big bang theory, string theory, and plate tectonics" supernaturalistic pseudoscience?
The FSM will show his wrath at having been excluded. So grab your parmesan and head for the hills.
Creation is only a scientific theory if you have absolutely no concepetion or comprehension of what a scientific theory is.
More like an attempt to honestly define science by the realistic parameters within which it is actually practiced by trained professionals and to keep superfluous politics away from the essential core principles of a quality science curriculum.
It's good to see the push for quality science education on the offensive instead of the defensive for once.
It's kinda like a "no Ebonics" rule for English class. O how insensitive!
How about defending your position? Or is articulate defense a nonexistent skill in this age of "sound bite discourse"?
I suspect they're trying to smoke out some Republicans to oppose this. If they do, then they push the ball down the field in attempting to paint Republicans as ignorant mouth breathers.
wiscon-SINNER
Only way to attack atheism and islam at the heart, is to attack ALL religion as irreligious..
To wit; Jesus came to make all religion obsolete, AND DID..
He must've known then that all religion would one day blurr into an amorphous uniformity.. and a convoluted mess.. Theres really not much difference between an atheist and worshipping a God that ain't God.. Whats the difference.. I say they know at a deep level each other, and are allies against the real God..
your fsm has been boiled way way past the al dente point. tis a choice for its followers whether or not to follow suit in eternity.
And my point is made in flashing neon by a drive-by poster. Sheesh.
When you get whacked upside your haid with a meatball, you'll change your tune.
One can only hope that Wisconsin has a few Barry Goldwater-type conservative Republicans who surprise the opposition. Can't say I know the cast of characters in this one.
Berceau's bill would "require that anything presented as science in the classroom be testable as a scientific hypothesis and pertain to natural, not supernatural, processes.According to stringers then String Theory, being not testable, could not be taught as officially-approved science. See FR Thread A scientific leap, but without the faith .
Also, even natural selection is not rigorously testable according to Karl Popper. Therefore it is NOT officially-approved science either.
Take your squirt bottle of acetone. When you see one scurrying across the floor squirt a circle around him. He won't cross until it evaporates. Next ZAP him - one squirt will do. He'll stop wriggling in a few minutes. Then kick him over into a corner where the janitor won't get him and no one will flatten him. Then step, gently, just enough to crack his exoskeleton. Watch. Within 2 hours the ants will have hauled his entire carcass off. Very efficient. Graduate students have a lot of time on their hands :-)
There's almost certainly at least one member of the state legislature who feels it's his holy mission in life to smite the "godless scientists." I long for the old days when, like William Jennings Bryan (of the Scopes trial), such people were in the democrat party.
Mostly, no. What is sometimes called "microevolution", or adaptation with species or near-species bounds has, of course, been demonstarted. But that is NOT the core of Darwin's natural selection hypothesis -- there the claim is that all mega-evolution occured by purely naturalistic means. Karl Popper, the guru of science definitions himself, said that in that regard natural selection may be impossible to test.
Come back to watch the fun.
Everybody knows what a new "kind" of animal means. I'm not going to sit around here wasting time arguing with people who think that going from a green moth to a brown moth which looks just like it other than for color or from a finch with beak A to the same finch with beak B proves the theory of evolution.
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