In an amendment sponsored by board member Barbara Cargill, the board of education voted to replace a requirement to teach the “concept of an expanding universe that originated about 14 billion years ago”.
Universe’s age erased from Texas school science standards – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist
Doesn’t the Oklahoma legislature have anything better to do?
Third in a series – collect them all! A few more examples of links I’ve posted (harvested in turn from other sources) showing up later at boingboing.net.
Palin believes dinosaurs and men once coexisted
Posted by Xeni Jardin on 30 September 30, 2008.
Posted by Trevor Blake on 28 September 2008.
American YouTube manga girl making waves in Japan
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder on 24 November 24, 2008.
Posted by Trevor Blake on 15 February 2008.
Free book on Free Range kids
Posted by Cory Doctorow on 13 February 2009.
Posted by Trevor Blake on 28 October 2008.
Women, Know Your Limits.
Posted by Xeni Jardin on 13 February 2009.
Posted by Trevor Blake on 11 November 2007.
As J. R. “Bob” Dobbs said, “If you want to be known as a creative, original person, make sure you imitate the right people.” I know I do.
only 25 percent of adults in Turkey agree that human beings developed from earlier species of animals, whereas 40 percent of people in the United States agree with this scientific fact, Hameed writes. And Turkey is one of the most secular and educated of Muslim countries.
Directly responding to the implicit challenge some researchers have been not just figuring out how X could have evolved, but actually evolving new complex machines (previously).
Palaeontologists: this could be your lucky day. Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar has just offered ten trillion lira – a mouth-watering $7.5 trillion – to “anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution”.
[Article continues at link. How about this one? Or this one? Or this one? Or this one? Or this one? Every one of those links includes several examples. Should any of my readers cash in on the $75 trillion, I ask for a 1% finder's fee. - Trevor Blake]
Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago
Professor Michael Reiss, director of education for the Royal Society, said banning creationism from the classroom could backfire at a time of growing religious fundamentalism. [How about 'teach falsehood as falsehood' or 'teach critical thinking' instead of 'accomodate stupid']
Children should be taught about creationism in school, top scientist says | Mail Online
John McCain’s vice-presidential pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is an evangelical Protestant with a strong record of opposition to abortion and an openness to teaching creationism in the public schools.