Some people are just too damn proud of being ignorant
Evolution To Be Taught As Scientific ‘Theory’ In Florida Because Of Right-Wing Campaign
Today, Florida’s Board of Education voted 4-3 to change standards for teaching science in Florida’s public schools. The Miami Herald reports:
For the first time ever, evolution is to be taught clearly and explicitly in Florida classrooms now that the Florida Board of Education Tuesday approved a batch of new science standards that says the “E” word.
But there’s a catch: Evolution will be taught as “the Scientific Theory of Evolution.”
Previously, Florida’s science standards referred to evolution as “biological changes over time.” The shift to evolution was widely embraced by Florida’s scientists, school teachers, and university professors.
Yet a successful lobbying campaign by a coalition of conservative groups, such as the Christian Coalition of Florida and the Florida Family Policy Council, managed to convince the board to insert the caveat. They said they were “vigorously opposed” to the evolution language because it “clashes with their religious convictions or their personal beliefs that evolution has not been proved.” </em>
Go the story linked and watch some Florida rube dribble out the Larry the Cable Guy version of evolution:
At a public hearing, one Florida Panhandle resident held up two oranges and mockingly said that “after reading all the material” on evolution, he has a “conviction” that one of the oranges “is the first cousin of somebody’s pet cat” and the other, “the parent of somebody’s pet dog.”
And if you really want to get depressed (Yoshi alert…cover your keyboard), go here and read the comments.
Much has been written about the harmful “anti-learning” environment that effects black youth- a culture that has convinced itself that school, education and learning aren’t “cool” (something TTP will examine further when it discusses who will be our next president), but somehow, nobody writes about how a growing number of American adults revel in their stupidity, proud to ignorant of the basic facts of the world in which they live, simply because the word God is used.
Screw that. These people are moronic hillbillies, and we’ve tried to be polite, or just ignore you hoping you’ll shut up and find some other, equally ludicrous angel to stick on a pin, but no, you keep popping up, attempting to dumb down the rest of society because you can’t keep up, and using your faith as a shield to deflect criticism, all the while whining that you’ve been victimized. Shut up. You don’t want your kids to hear that chimps and man share 99.4% common DNA, an easily proven FACT? Then school ‘em at home, so they can go on to embarrass themselves in public long after you’ve gone.
But here’s a little tip. The last time a culture allowed faith and religion to “beat” science, they didn’t fare well. I know its hard to get ya to read a book that doesn’t have Fabio or Pat Robertson on the cover, but this one will give you a pretty clear view of the perils of sustained ignorance.
