New Science Standards Approved in Florida

anonymous_echidna writes "Florida has voted to accept the new K-12 science curriculum standards amidst a storm of controversy around the teaching of evolution, which had up until now been the scientific concept that dare not speak its name. There was a compromise made at the last minute, which was to call evolution a 'scientific theory', rather than a fact. While some lament that the change displays the woeful ignorance of science and scientific terminology, the good news is that the new curriculum emphasizes teaching the meaning of scientific terms and the scientific method in earlier grades."

Jesus Fucking Christ

[Protonk]

I'm moving to another country where crazy isn't an approved religion.

Someone call editorial...

[EricTheGreen]

From TFA, boldface added:

During more than two hours of testimony, scientists and religious representatives argued over whether teaching that humans evolved from a single-celled species over hundreds of millions of years should be taken as gospel.

Not sure that's the word said scientists would use in this context themselves...

woo hoo!

[urcreepyneighbor]

The more dumbasses in the world, the smarter I seem! woo hoo!

Fear me, for I have studied the dark science of natural selection!

Re:woo hoo!

[RingDev]

It's that exact logic that got me a girl friend with small hands.

My junk looks HUGE!

-Rick

Why Should We Be Surprised?

[saudadelinux]

Let's face it, folks no other state has its own category on Fark.com; the utter lunacy and stupidity down there has been neatly quantified.

Re:Someone call editorial...

[somersault]

Depends on whether they think it's good news that we evolved or not? :p

Re:Jesus Fucking Christ

[Protonk]

I love Carl Hiassen. But I think that between the two of us we can't spell his name right. :)

Theory

[StarReaver]

I don't think that word means what you think it means (from a scientific standpoint)

Re:That's fair

[msuarezalvarez]

I do not think I can put this in a softer way, so here it goes:

In the name of $HOLY_THING, please inform yourself before attemptying to participate in a discussion, for otherwise you are become line noise.

The difference you are seeing between `law' and `theory' only exists in your confused mind.

Re:Jesus Fucking Christ

[trongey]

RE: Title of parent post.
I don't think he could do that, even with miraculous powers. I know, the whole one-in-three business makes it kind of confusing, but I still just don't think it could be done.

Re:woo hoo!

[MightyYar]

Just make sure you get her back to day care before her mommy comes to pick her up.

Re:woo hoo!

[geedra]

I guess that's cool, you know, if you only ever put it in her hand...

Re:Man, ALL religion is crazy...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, my invisible guy [venganza.org] doesn't want to kill me. He wants to give me beer and stripper factories. Unfortunately, he does want me to dress up like a pirate. I think that implies he wants me to go kill all the unbelievers (such as ninjas).

Re:The news media is a major part of the problem

[Mr. Slippery]

You would never say that unless you wanted to get the "I didn't come from no monkey!" camp riled up, or you were an uneducated buffoon.

Or you were tossing a softball.

"Why, yes, O'Brien, according to our best evidence we did descend from apes - mor precisely, we and modern apes descended from a common, ape-like ancestor. And I'm proud of how far our species has developed, how far up from the muck we've come, how far towards grace we've climbed; and I hope that our umptity-great grandchildren will be as far above us as we are above the Australopithecines. My opponent the Biblical literalist, on the other hand, seems to hold that we're all the fallen result of incestuous inbreeding from a single original pair of idiots dumb enough to be fooled by a talking snake. I've got to say I find the scientific account not only more rational, but orders of magnitude more inspiring."

Re:That's fair

[Mesa MIke]

Hah!

And as a True Believer, I tell you that religion (mine , specifically) still works too, even if you don't believe it.

Just try expressing your non-belief to St. Peter when he kindly asks you to step into the Hand Basket instead of inviting you to pass through the Pearly Gates....

 

Christianity

[kryliss]

Don't remember where I found this one but it seems to fit in with this thread.

Christianity

The belief that some cosmic, Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
Makes perfect sense.

Re:Jesus Fucking Christ

[DrLang21]

The only reason theories come about is because of a fact. You mean like string theory?

Re:Jesus Fucking Christ

[lky]

Everyone can witness Micro-Evolution (changes within one species).

No one has witnessed Macro-Evolution (changes from one species to another). We have some reasonable evidence of Macro-Evolution from the fossil record but even that isn't conclusive. Seems like every time we find a missing link, it just creates more missing links to find.

Re:Jesus Fucking Christ

[orclevegam]

public asbtract class StringTheory implements Universe;

Re:Jesus Fucking Christ

[Alsee]

what more do you need?

I think that would be "I'll believe evolution when you show me a frog give birth to a cat".

Also known as "I'll believe in relativity when I drive a car real fast and I see my watch run backwards".

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