They don't teach alchemy in math class either.

What's wrong with Kentucky teaching Cretinism?

"I have a very difficult time believing that we have come to a point ... that we are teaching evolution ... as a factual occurrence, while totally omitting the creation story by a God who is bigger than all of us."

A point where the human race actually investigates the world we live in rather than taking an old book's word on it? Yeah, what a shame that is.

I love how all these idiots are quite happy using all the wonders the scientific revolution has brought us, until it disagrees with something written in their book of mythology.

I have a very difficult time believing that we have come to a point, in 2011, where people still believe the Bible deals with factual stories.

In Hart County, about an hour and 20 minutes south of Louisville, the local school superintendent is now expressing his frustration that a new state biology test is, in his opinion, treating evolution as a fact, rather than a theory.

He also charges that the test is omitting the "creation story" that cites God as the originator of the universe.

Then the superintendent is a horrible excuse for an educator and should be fired. Idiot.

Terry Holliday, the state education commissioner, said the state biology test would deal with evolution as theory, not fact. Warren noted that teachers in Kentucky may discuss theories of creation other than evolution, but are not required to do so.

So the state education commissioner also does not know what a scientific theory is.

The superintendent remained defiantly skeptical in the face of scientific consensus, noting that it was "interesting that the great majority of scientists felt Pluto was a planet until a short time ago, and now they have totally changed that."

Because that's such a great comparison to evolution. What a farking moron. This dipshiat is a superintendent? Seriously? How embarrassing for Kentucky.

Blues_X: See what happens.

Ample opportunities to see the inner workings of the human skull, I'm assuming.

eraser8: Of all the stupid things in TFA, this one strikes me as the funniest.

The IAU just adopted a definition of planet that happens to relegate Pluto to "dwarf" status. They didn't learn that Pluto wasn't really there or was made of shaving cream or something.

That amused me as well. They didn't change any theories about Pluto. They changed its classification to better describe its characteristics. "A rose by any other name..." and all that.

It just goes to further highlight how little this man understands science.

This is exciting shiat and we've never talked about it before.

It's Kentucky, fark it.

"I have a very difficult time believing that we have come to a point ... that we are teaching evolution ... as a factual occurrence,

But yet you have no problem believing all the religious stuff that people a couple thousands of years ago created out of thin air?

Wow, just wow, the state of education in certain parts of the country is just appalling.

"interesting that the great majority of scientists felt Pluto was a planet until a short time ago, and now they have totally changed that."

A more accurate analogy would be "the great majority of scientists felt Pluto was a planet until a short time ago, so why don't we teach that the earth is the center of the universe and the stars are holes in to heaven to comfort us after the sun god is chased away by the moon demon?"

/don't worry, as long as we keep faith the sun god will come back some time around dawn.

Ok here is a question for them to add to the test

1) What method did God use to create life?
A) Magic
B) Evolution
C) Elves
D) All of the Above

Mugato: SkinnyHead: So in other words, the claim that 99.9% of scientists accept evolution is not from a scientific poll. Instead, it's an estimate based on the fact that 1100 scientists named "Steve" accept evolutionism. It's a joke. And then the LA Times goes and reports it as fact.

Why do you do this? What do you get out of it?

A handjob from Ray Comfort.

Mugato: SkinnyHead: So in other words, the claim that 99.9% of scientists accept evolution is not from a scientific poll. Instead, it's an estimate based on the fact that 1100 scientists named "Steve" accept evolutionism. It's a joke. And then the LA Times goes and reports it as fact.

Why do you do this? What do you get out of it?

/serious

Because out of all the farkers in this thread, almost all believe in SkinnyHead. I'd say about 99.9% do. Only .1% believe in elchip.

My heart goes out to this guy. When I was in highschool I complained for months that our biology textbooks did not adequately address the evolution of unicorns, our chemistry textbooks did not address magical potions, and shop class did not teach us what to do when our car breaks down due to gremlin activity. It took almost a year, but with enough lawyers, I was finally able to correct this injustice.

/u c wut i did thar?
/am I being too subtle?

Poke_it_with_a_stick: Ok here is a question for them to add to the test

1) What method did God use to create life?
A) Magic
B) Evolution
C) Elves
D) All of the AboveSteve Jobs

Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District proved that "Intelligent Design" is a crock of shiat.

Poke_it_with_a_stick: Ok here is a question for them to add to the test

1) What method did God use to create life?
A) Magic
B) Evolution
C) Elves
D) All of the Above

Seconded. It's baffling that this is such an unreconcilable concept. If god created life, then god created evolution as a natural process to manage it. If god doesn't exist, then evolution simply came naturally. It just boils down that that 6000 year figure being totally wrong. Even that wouldn't negate god, since it's never been said humans are expected to be perfect.

Sure it's not right, but come on. None of these kids being taught creationism were going to cure cancer some day anyway.

Impasse: Poke_it_with_a_stick: Ok here is a question for them to add to the test

1) What method did God use to create life?
A) Magic
B) Evolution
C) Elves
D) All of the AboveSteve Jobs

Good answer, but I like the idea of Magical Evolving Elves

Evolution is a theory. Doesn't it make sense to teak all of the dominate theories? Also, evolution is the only theory that has failed to evolve. It is so arguably wrong now it is laughable what is taught.

If you don't want to deal with this shiat, don't live in Kentucky. They can teach their children whatever the hell they want, as far as I am concerned, as long as it includes distilling and baseball bat manufacturing.

Evolution is a theory, why can't people comprehend the difference between theory and hypothesis.

theory = an explanation for observed phenomena
hypothesis = an untested conjecture

vygramul: If creationism belonged ANYWHERE - which it doesn't - it would be in HISTORY you dumb farking hicks.

And while I'm at it, why is it that creationists also tend to believe in eugenics?

Not history, literature. Same place we study Greek, Roman, Mesopotamian, etc mythologies. Christian and Jewish mythology used to be taught in history as a sort of "best guess" (slaves built the pyramids, Jewish tribes warring against each other, Rome ever really giving a fark about the middle east) until actual history covered the eras in question and showed the bible to be 100% fabricated, but now that that's established it belongs in western lit.

So it's not without value, it just has the same kind of value as stories about Zeus turning into a swan and farking a shepherdess to conceive superman -- literary value, not factual value.

glassbottomboatcaptain: and shop class did not teach us what to do when our car breaks down due to gremlin activity.

Mine did.

//curses loudly
//kicks side of vehicle

The superintendent's name is "Ricky D. Line." Awesome!
I'm picturing a movie where he plays a one-man-wrecking-crew, kinda like in "Falling Down", in which he shoots up the heathens in the school system. His catch phrase, "In education there's a Line.... and you've just crossed it."

keylock71: While 99.9% of scientists accept evolution, 40% to 50% of college students do not accept evolution and believe it to be 'just' a theory."

Wow...

Half of all college students? I just don't buy that.