Here Is What Louisiana Schoolchildren Learn About Evolution

[nutmeg]

Quote from Ricter:

Just because you retained nothing from your education does not mean no one else did, or will.

Hey.....

Enlighten us on your 5th grade ciricullum, you rememeber your teachers, grades, classmates, religious studies from 5th grade.

Actually, what grade did you study evolution?

 

[Ricter]

Quote from nutmeg:

Hey.....

Enlighten us on your 5th grade ciricullum, you rememeber your teachers, grades, classmates, religious studies from 5th grade.

Actually, what grade did you study evolution?

In fifth grade I was reading the Barnes & Noble Outline of Biology, for fun. (Not sure that series is still in print, I think the Schaum series beat them.)

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from stu:

You're asking what's the problem misleading fifth-graders into even considering myth based creationism should compete with fact based science.
Really?

Not all of the "science" in question is fact based.
So yes, really.

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from Free Thinker:

Louisiana set up a charter school system and the religious groups have been allowed to teach their superstition to the children and have the state support it.

https://www.au.org/church-state/jun...indal-voucher-scheme-will-subsidize-religious

That what happens when you live in Dixie. They are still whining about the War of Northern Aggression. Is it any wonder why they promote retrograde thinking?

 

[MathAndLogic]

Quote from Free Thinker:

Get them while they're young

"Everything I've ever learned about marketing, I learned in church"
"Everything I've ever learned about marketing, I learned in church," says Andrea, one of the people featured in this film.

Ain't this the truth. It's astounding and disgusting to see the striking parallels between the strategies used by large corporations to get children hooked on cigarettes and those used by churches to brainwash children into accepting an ancient mind-numbing myth. In short, get them while they're young (and maybe you'll get them for life).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/may/29/psychology-religion


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZytbe1a9s

"Get them while they're young." This is the unspoken (and not so unspoken) mission of churches everywhere.

They understand how critical it is to gain converts before they become adults...before they're exposed to science, history, other religions and other points of view. They aggressively target children and youth with marketing campaigns that rival many advertising companies. They sponsor events, activities, games and lots of free food for the opportunity to influence impressionable minds.

Chris, Andrea, Matt and Dell share their own experiences as children and adults from inside these programs.

I said it before and I will say it again: "I must congratulate China and USSR for freeing more than a billion of humanity from the shackles of religion."

We are a primitive and civilization because we still have religion and we still use money.

 

[nutmeg]

You guys are breaking balls on what little religion is left in this country.

Why don't you go educate the Muslims on the errors of their ways?

Prayer rugs, footbaths and "call to prayer" in America are okay? Say "Merry Christmas" and you are offensive. spare me.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from nutmeg:

You guys are breaking balls on what little religion is left in this country.

Why don't you go educate the Muslims on the errors of their ways?

Prayer rugs, footbaths and "call to prayer" in America are okay? Say "Merry Christmas" and you are offensive. spare me.

Ditto

 

[stu]

Quote from Lucrum:

Not all of the "science" in question is fact based.
So yes, really.

So yes, really?
The non-fact based, non-scientific "science" in question is Creationism.
What next. Teach Numerology as math? The Stork theory as biology?
Teaching religion as science. A really dumb thing to do.

 

[stu]

Quote from nutmeg:

You guys are breaking balls on what little religion is left in this country.

Why don't you go educate the Muslims on the errors of their ways?

Prayer rugs, footbaths and "call to prayer" in America are okay? Say "Merry Christmas" and you are offensive. spare me.

Why don't you go educate them?
Tell 'em religion in America is not okay.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from stu:

So yes, really?

Yes, really.

You want to believe the latest and greatest theory as chiseled in stone "gospel"? That's your prerogative. If I had a dollar for every time science figured out what they thought they knew was wrong, I'd own the world by now.

And I'm NOT anti-science.