Update to sticker on Evolution booksFollow

In your face crazy religious people!!!

Hurray for activist judges.

We had another kinda stink about evolution a lot more recently as well. Kathy Cox essentially annihilated her political career.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/01/30/striking.evolution.ap/

I think Jimmy Carter actually called it an embaressment to the state after he head about it.

I live in Cobb County!



But really, what do expect from a district that gave us Newt Gingrich.



Also, for some reason, I was expecting this to be about bumber stickers... Something along the lines of "My ancestors didn't come from apes, but my ex-husband's did." Ho-ho, take that genetics pool!

ROFL

Holy cow is someone filtering stupid into the water supply there.


I think for now on no one in the world should use the word HAPPY because I feel that its a "Buzzword". For now on everyone has to say:

"Feeling of Enjoyment"

It will take some time for this to sink in and many people will be severely punished for using the buzzword "Happy" but in time I think everyone will adjust to how I want the world to run around me and only me.


Is it just me or are there more and more people taking there daily jogs through the stupid forest.

It does seem that way sometimes. I live in Gwinett myself, so I was spared the evolution stickers, but Cox's idiocy was statewide.

If it's any consolation, It never did go into effect. Just about every science teacher that I knew swore that they would resign if it ever happened.

The problem is that no one with definitive knowledge as to which competing theory- Evoloution or Creationism- is correct is alive to share the wisdom.

Technically, the stickers were correct. Evoloution is a theory that, while is has substantial evidence to support it, does also have many holes in establishing the sequences in the process by which man evolved from amoeba.

What I found most interesting is that- once again- activist Judges read something into the wording of the stickers that was not there: namely, any reference to religion. In fact, the writers of what was on the sticker went to great lengths not to mention Religion or Creationism. All the stickers asked was that students consider that Evoloution is not alone among theories and to keep an open mind as to alternatives. I guess these Judges are deathly afraid of letting the students think for themselves.

Evolution is pretty much alone in the realm of scientific theories with any support. Which is the only thing one should be finding in a textbook on science.

Creationism has about as much scientific support and evidence as Lamarckism.

The basic theory of evolution doesnt really have holes in it.

Monkey to man its pretty much proven. However when you get down to the minutae or even mid level there are debates of the models of how they evolved, was neanderthal an evolutionary dead end or were they predecessors of Sapien, or did the two merge? Stuff like that but pretty much anyone versed in the science will agree about the general idea of evolution and just quibble of the particulars.

Out of africa or mutli regional development, is **** Erectus and **** Ergaster different enough to classify as different genus, did Habilis come from Afarensis or gracile stuff like that.

Little stuff but the fossil and genetic record show that man came from ape. We also see the branching out not only of human but of orangs, gorilla nad chimps over time and the divergence.

Fixed.

Actually, I don't know that it is but the theory is a common ancestor, not that we evolved from modern day monkeys as the original statement implied

Any noob knows that the world is a giant ball that sits on the back of the giant turtle god. The sun is the brother of the almighty turtle god and to question him is to spend eternal damnation in the dimension of rabid rabbits that spew bees from there mouth.

Rate up for Jophiel for knowing stuff.

That was absolutely correct

This is my understanding: The Theory of Evolution is just that, a theory. There is some question as to if it is truth, but it is generally accepted by scientists as the most plausible theory, seeing as nobody can prove it or anything else.

However, evolution (non-capital e) is much surer. It holds the same scientific water as Gravity. No, its not a "fact," but it is about as close as you can get.



So is gravity. Creationism does not have "substantial evidence to support it" by any stretch of the imagination.



Yes, there was no refrence to religion on the stickers. The problem with the stickers is, as you pointed out, "Evolution is not alone among theories." The stickers singled out Evolution. Why not gravity?

The stickers are the Religious Rights attempt to undermine the teaching of science in the classroom. They disagree with evolution, and are attempting to stick their collective nose into the rubric to undermine something they do not agree with. Evolution is not taught as fact, it is taugh as theory. Indeed, it is called the Theory of Evolution.

The people that don't want children thinking for themselves is the people that pushed for these stickers. Evolution is the most commonly accepted (by scientist) theory for the existence of man. Usually other theories, including Creationism, are taugh alongside Evolution.