We’re gonna stupid ourselves to death
Bill in Texas would allow creationists to grant Masters of Science degrees
If a private college doesn’t receive funds from any governmental organization, should they have to be held to any standards or requirements when they award degrees? No, one Texan lawmaker is insisting.
Texas State Representative Leo Berman has proposed House Bill 2800, which would exempt any private non-profit institution that requires students to complete “substantive course work” from having to acquire a certificate of authority from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board(THECB).
Berman admits that his ‘inspiration’ for the bill was the Institute for Creation Research Graduate School, a Young Earth Creationism institution that has been trying to achieve certification in Texas for two years. Young Earth Creationism, much more popular than the recent Intelligent Design Creationism, is essentially Biblical literalism – Earth is 10,000 years old, Noah’s Flood occurred, Adam and Eve were real people.
Critics of Berman’s bill are enraged, claiming that it will de-legitimize any degree coming out of Texas. Eugenie Scott, executive director for the National Center for Science Education, told Foxnews.com that “all you have to do…is start a non-profit organization, don’t take any federal or state money, and then offer degrees in any fool subject you want. Teaching that the Earth is only 10,000 years old is a little irregular in modern science.” </em>
A “little irregular”? That’s being a bit too kind. It’s not irregular, it’s WRONG. It’s a LIE. It is granting one set of rules to the majority of the world- you know, the reality-based, millions of years old world, the world that abides by provable facts, and another set of rules to people who choose to believe in flights of fantasy from a single source that can’t be proven. The majority is supposed to politely nod and say “yes, your degree from “Adam rode a dinosaur University” is real, please reap all the benefits that actual REAL students and educated people get.” That’s bullshit, and an insult to people who work exceedingly hard to learn and prove REAL things everyday, instead of pondering how many angels can fit on the head of a pin.
