Evolution Wins as Creationists (Accidentally) Switch Sides in Florida

[tsg]

Dogma??? Seriously? How is it possible that a group of people can see something so absolutely ***backwards??

It's called transference and is largely caused by people believing other people behave the same way they do. It comes in handy playing poker: the guy who tells you you're bluffing is likely someone who bluffs quite a bit.

 

[deverett]

You know, I have a 10 year old nephew. He's a good kid. He goes to a Christian school. I started quizing him in the car yesterday:

"Who invented peanut butter"

Carver

"Who invented the light bulb"

Edison

"Who developed the theory of Evolution"

Huh?

Edison did not invent the light bulb, so your nephew was wrong on all three counts. Time for a new school.

 

[Andronicus]

Carver did popularize peanuts in American though a quick internet search indicates peanut butter (essentially crushed peanuts) may have been around for over 3000 years.

Edison as the inventor of the light bulb is close enough. I certainly didn't remember Swann until I looked the history of the light bulb up on Wikipedia. (Edison did win his appeal as to the improved incandecent light bulb.)

 

[fuelair]

From the Discovery Institute Link above:

"While it is good that students will learn about evolution, these standards will make for bad science education because they elevate Darwin’s theory to a dogma that cannot be questioned. . . ."

"One good aspect of Florida's new standards is that their section on the Nature of Science states that students should “use critical and logical thinking, and the active consideration of alternative scientific explanations to explain all the data presented.”


Dogma??? Seriously? How is it possible that a group of people can see something so absolutely ***backwards?? And now, the Discovery Institute is the great purveyor of critical thinking skills in children? I wonder if they would be equally eager to have children SPECIFICALLY taught to "use critical thinking skills to consider alternative scientific explanations" for all of the "data" presented in religious texts as well? I think it is a great idea to use evolution/creationism as an example of utilizing critical thinking skills to sperate the science from myth - it may be one of the finest examples available for demonstration.

Read up on the history (not the philosophy or propanganda of) the D. I. and it's founders. They (founders) actually were on the kind-of, sort-of right track for a while as republickers trying to pull other republickers from anti-intellectual, pro-fundie stuff. Then they caved. (Demonstrating devolution in a spectacular way)