And here is why we must laugh when we can at the Intelligent Design crowd...
Quick Takes: Defeat for Evolution in Kansas, Income Decline Projected, U. of Colorado Foundation Criticized, 12 to Receive U.S. Humanities Medals, Senate Proposes Extension of College Tax Break [Inside Higher Ed]
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O my beloved Kansas. I miss you so much, your beautiful blue sky, your gorgeous sunsets, even those terrifying thunderstorms. I am so sorry that the Design crowd has got a stranglehold on the neck of your Board of Education. Your poor children, how stupid they are about to become. Your poor science teachers, about to be forced to prostitute themselves in the classroom, whoring for the Discovery Institute's agenda to infest everyone with their brand of fundamentalist morals.
Isn't it odd that the only members of the board who voted to inject theology into science classrooms and call it "teaching the debate" were Republicans? Thank you, to the two Republicans who joined the two Democrats in voting no and trying desperately to keep Kansas from being the laughingstock of the world once more.
Supporters of the standards said they will promote academic freedom. "It gets rid of a lot of dogma that's being taught in the classroom today," said board member John Bacon, an Olathe Republican.
I nearly puked when I read that. I used to live in Olathe. This guy could have been my neighbor. I lived within 5 miles of someone who can say that forcing science teachers to talk about theology is "getting rid of a lot of dogma that's being taught in the classroom".
There's more.
In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.
How do you like that. Six Republicans in Kansas have rewritten the definition of science. Six Republicans in Kansas have said "Science - you are no more! Poof!" Six Humpty Dumptys said "When I use the word Science, it means what I want it to mean."
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