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Hero Of The Day: Origin Of Stupidity

6:08 pm EST September 22nd, 2009 | Uncategorized | 36 Comments

This young lady is great.

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Connect The Dots, Oklahoma Edition

10:59 am EST September 19th, 2009 | News | 153 Comments

(Oklahoma) Bill promotes school religion at expense of education

The bill requires public schools to guarantee students the right to express their religious viewpoints in a public forum, in class, in homework and in other ways without being penalized. If a student’s religious beliefs were in conflict with scientific theory, and the student chose to express those beliefs rather than explain the theory in response to an exam question, the student’s incorrect response would be deemed satisfactory, according to this bill.

Mayoral Candidate Anna Falling Wants Creationism Exhibit

A push to exhibit the Christian story of creation at the Tulsa Zoo failed four years ago. Republican candidate for Tulsa mayor, Anna Falling, is bringing the issue front and center.

It’s the same exhibit and the same arguments, but now it is given from the bully pulpit of a candidate running for mayor.

“Some may ask why this issue during a Mayoral campaign? And I say why not?” said candidate Anna Falling.

Oklahoma GOP Platform (via)

7. We believe that the scientific evidence supporting Biblical creation should be included in Oklahoma public schools curricula, and if any evolution theory is taught, that both should receive equal funding, class time, and material. Teachers should have the freedom to cover creation science without fear of intimidation, reprimand, or lack of professional respect.

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Curriculum
1. Curricula should include [...] the option of using the Bible as HISTORY [emphasis added] or literature text.

Study Questions Okla. School Performance

A new study claimed that one in four Oklahoma high school students couldn’t identify the first person to be President of the United States.

The study, which found that students also struggled to answer other basic questions, has some people questioning the effectiveness of Oklahoma schools.

Researchers from the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs questioned 1,000 high school students and said that only 3 percent of them would be able to pass the United States Citizenship Test.

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Texas Engages In A Whole New Breed Of Stupid: Master’s Degree For Creationism?

5:52 pm EST March 18th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 60 Comments

That this is even an idea is a testament to the stupidity of the cultural right.


A Texas legislator is waging a war of biblical proportions against the science and education communities in the Lone Star State as he fights for a bill that would allow a private school that teaches creationism to grant a Master of Science degree in the subject.

State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) proposed House Bill 2800 when he learned that The Institute for Creation Research (ICR), a private institution that specializes in the education and research of biblical creationism, was not able to receive a certificate of authority from Texas’ Higher Education Coordinating Board to grant Master of Science degrees.

Berman’s bill would allow private, non-profit educational institutions to be exempt from the board’s authority.

“If you don’t take any federal funds, if you don’t take any state funds, you can do a lot more than some business that does take state funding or federal funding,” Berman says. “Why should you be regulated if you don’t take any state or federal funding?”

HB 2800 does not specifically name ICR; it would allow any institution that meets its criteria to be exempt from the board’s authority. But Berman says ICR was the inspiration for the bill because he feels creationism is as scientific as evolution and should be granted equal weight in the educational community.

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Why Was The Cincinnati Zoo Even Thinking Of Working With Creationists?

10:50 am EST December 2nd, 2008 | News | 4 Comments

From the department of things that never made any sense.

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Florida Anti-Evolution Education Bills Dead

3:37 pm EST May 3rd, 2008 | News | Comments Off

For a while, at least, some of the kids in Florida have a shot at a non-stupid science education.

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A Puppet Pwns Ben Stein And His Stupid Intelligent Design Movie “Expelled”

12:39 am EST May 1st, 2008 | News | 16 Comments

I posted this in links yesterday, but I’m putting it here because I thought it was funny and worth more notice. I really hate these intelligent design (creationism) people and the way they continue to try and pervert science and education. Expelled and Ben Stein are even worse because they try to link Nazism and Fascism to science and evolution. Their tactics, of course, are right out of the Goebbels playbook.

The guys who did this video have a cool Stephen Colbert puppet you should check out. (via)

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Evolution Denier Doesn’t Believe The Earth Is Round

11:03 am EST September 19th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 13 Comments

This is a great encapsulation of the intelligent design theory and the people who support it. Appearing on the view, evolution denier Sherri Shepherd explains how she doesn’t know whether the world is round or not.

Can we tell these people that the sun is habitable and send them all there? (via)

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The Right Tries To Play “Cool” Again

7:13 pm EST August 23rd, 2007 | Uncategorized | 16 Comments

This time it’s with Ben Stein and Creationism (aka Intelligent Design). Oh boy.

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Sun Or No Sun

2:22 am EST June 24th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Teach the controversy, damn it.

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The Childlike Minds Of Intelligent Design (Creationism) Advocates

7:31 pm EST May 21st, 2007 | Uncategorized | 10 Comments

And when I say childlike, I don’t mean it in the way that so much of childhood is good. I mean the bad way.

In the last three decades, studies of children show that they quickly pick up an intuitive understanding of how the world works, say the researchers. For example, babies know that objects fall and are real and solid (even though physics experiments show they are mostly made of atoms containing empty space.) “These intuitions give children a head start when it comes to understanding and learning about objects and people. However, they also sometimes clash with scientific discoveries about the nature of the world, making certain scientific facts difficult to learn,” the review says.

“To be scientifically educated means you have to pick up a lot of counter-intuitive beliefs,” says Bloom, whose research centers on how children develop their ideas about the world. It’s perfectly rational for people to rely on intuitive beliefs about the world, i.e. that objects fall down, rather than learning Einstein’s theory of gravity, he adds. “Life is too short.” The conflict comes when intuition conflicts with scientific evidence.

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