Politics A Little Less Wrong With Kansas
posted by on February 14 at 9:54 AM
The Kansas Board of Education has voted 6-4 to toss out curriculum forced through by anti-evolution idiots.
The new standards, set to take effect immediately, replace those put in place in 2005 by a conservative majority of the board who challenged the validity of evolution and called it incompatible with religious doctrine.
Conservatives, as you’d expect, are unhappy.
“I think it actually curtails the ability of students to learn and to think,” said conservative board member Steve Abrams of the latest revision.
And of course, it wouldn’t be a story about evolution in schools without our very own Discovery Institute chiming in:
The Kansas board was criticized by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, a group that promotes the concept of “intelligent design,” in which an intelligent force — which some proponents would say is God — is said to be probably responsible for some aspects of nature.“You have a board in Kansas that is so extreme,” said John West, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, adding that evolution supporters were “anti-religious.”
The institute says Darwin’s theories about the survival of the fittest have led some scientists to embrace eugenics and practices such as forced sterilization.
Note to John West: When Kansas, of all places, rejects your silly little enterprise, you think maybe it’s time to pack it in?
"I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.."
- Mein Kampf
Inasmuch as I am anti-lies, anti-ignorance, pro-rationality . . . yeah, I'm anti-religious. I just wish more people were as well, and didn't feel they had to wave the flag of religious tolerance at every baby step toward rationality. Stop coddling these loons, people!
What John West left out when he said "Darwin's theories about the survival of the fittest have led some scientists to embrace eugenics and practices such as forced sterilization" was "in the 1920s, and earlier". No reputable scientist has embraced these things in a long, long time; no reputable scientist believes that crime and retardation are genetic at all, except in very particular cases (Down syndrome for instance).
Nowadays these beliefs are solely the province of...religious nuts.
Let's not just pick on Christianity. Almost all established religions have been used to justify war, atrocities, genocide and terrorism throughout history. We should get a clue.
Let's not just pick on Christianity. Almost all established religions have been used to justify war, atrocities, genocide and terrorism throughout history. We should get a clue.
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