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Evolution Surprises Lawmakers
Kentucky lawmakers aren’t doing much to assuage their state’s hill-billy stereotype. A 2009 bill pushed by state republicans was intended to link Kentucky’s education system with national standards. As such, the state utilizes ACT to administer national tests to equate their students with those across the rest of the country. To their chagrin, they’ve recently been ‘surprised’ to discover evolution is a major science component – not creationism. Senator David Givens says:
I think we are very committed to being able to take Kentucky students and put them on a report card beside students across the nation. We’re simply saying to the ACT people we don’t want what is a theory to be taught as a fact in such a way it may damage students’ ability to do critical thinking.
Representative Ben Waide adds:
The theory of evolution is a theory, and essentially the theory of evolution is not science — Darwin made it up. My objection is they should ensure whatever scientific material is being put forth as a standard should at least stand up to scientific method. Under the most rudimentary, basic scientific examination, the theory of evolution has never stood up to scientific scrutiny.
You just can’t make this shit up.
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You just can’t make this shit up.
No you cant because Poe’s law says that an even bigger idiot will come along and make your florid fiction seem to be an understatement.
This guy has a BS Ag in Agriculture and yet he does not acknowledge genetics? I note with relief that it does not say BSc because he never was a scientist. I guess he really has a degree in BS Ag, as stated, because he is very good at that.
We’re simply saying to the ACT people we don’t want what is a theory to be taught as a fact in such a way it may damage students’ ability to do critical thinking.
Ignoring the entire science of genetics as proof of the theory of evolution is the very definition of uncritical thinking. Evolution is a clearly a proven fact, but one that is easier to express as a theory that explains the facts. He should know that “theory” does not have to mean “not yet proven”
Actually, science does not deal in facts but in finding the current best most likely explanation. Science would allow another theory called Creation to replace Evolution if it could. In order to do that in the normal scientific way, Creation theory has to explain all the discoveries and applications of genetics and then equal them with equivalent discoveries and applications. The way not to do this is to start with a book of answers.
My objection is they should ensure whatever scientific material is being put forth as a standard should at least stand up to scientific method.
Evolution has stood up to a hundred years of rigorous scientific testing and has never failed. It would be interesting to hear what scientific method could be applied to his theory of creationism. What experiments could be devised to prove it. What predictions could be made based on that theory, and how could they be tested.
And this dufus has the gall to bemoan the danger to the ability of students to do critical thinking!
Why do the Republicans allow such idiots to represent them. I can think of only one answer: because he does!