• yesman@lemmy.world
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    The solution to these “stealth” ID bills is to recruit Scientologists and NOI teachers to instruct children on the origins of life on Earth. That’d be funny at least.

    You see, children, the mad scientist Yakub created white people as an enemy of God. No, No, No, it’s Xenu who authored evil on earth by trapping the spirits of aliens in volcanoes.

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    Underpaid high school teacher: “Any questions on the lesson?”

    Student: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

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    Love to just fuck with young people by teaching them absolute nonsense for a year or four.

    Can’t wait to hear about how the AP Bio exam has gone woke.

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      It’s not even a theory in the scientific sense, like the theory of evolution is. There is no evidence involved, nor experimental data. Intelligent design was created as an “answer” to evolution, nothing more. It could be taught in a theological class, not biology.

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        It’s even better than that… We do have proof of ‘intelligent design’, except the intelligence doing the designing was people. Virtually all of our food was cultivated over centuries to be the way it is today. We literally forced evolution to happen to make bananas, tomatoes, corn, wheat, livestock, etc.

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          bananas

          I still LOL when I remember Ray Comfort thinking that he really, really had a “gotcha, scientists!” argument when he argued that bananas were designed by a (naturally, his) god.

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    West Virginia learning nothing from Kansas doung the same dumb shit with their board of education two decades ago sounds about right.

    Also, it seems that legislators don’t know the difference between a scientific theory which is supported by evidence and a layman’s theory which is a hypothesis.

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      Religious extremists will always work to propagate their beliefs by coopting state resources: in this case, the education system. They know their ideas can’t stand on their own merits, so they instead work to weasel their way in through forced prayer in school, teaching of religious ideas in science class, and of course, censorship of school libraries. It is theft of our taxpayer dollars to support their proselytization, which is ironic because some of these creeps are the same people raving about welfare queens and food stamps.

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        Come on! That was a joke! Like when he told Abraham he had to sacrifice his kid to prove his faith and then God jumped out at the last minute and says, “Stop! I was kidding! I totally got you with that one!”

        He’s such a kidder!

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    The one-sentence legislation now declares that “no local school board, school superintendent, or school principal shall prohibit a public school classroom teacher from discussing and answering questions from students about scientific theories of how the universe and/or life came to exist.”

    Seems like a really weird thing to make into a law. Does West Virginia codify any other part of their curriculum into a statute?

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      What’s amusing is how the Nat C’s are confused about what evolution entails - it does not cover the Big Bang or abiogenesis. But if you get into discussions (if you can call them that) with these types, they will typically use strawmen phrases such as “Molecules to Man” in reference to science.

      All they usually do is just repeat a bunch of Gish Gallop horse manure that is just quite a thing to behold in its combined arrogance and ignorance.

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    “So, students, does anyone have an argument against intelligent design? Yes, Billy?”

    “Yeah, the balls are on the outside.”

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      Yeah, we evolved that way because it’s apparently slightly more advantageous to keep sperm just slightly colder than internal body temperature, even though it creates a higher risk of injury. An intelligent designer would have made sperm that can handle warmer temperatures.