I actually don't think the religious beliefs don't matter, they're very important. I think it's important for the school to respect such beliefs too.
I am glad that this law is being discussed.
I am glad that this law is being discussed.
It has everything to do with this. Once again superstition is getting mixed up into the education system and is being presented as something more then superstition. If allowed to continue, the education system will eventually collapse from the anti-intellectual rot and we'll end up looking like the Mideast. Maybe you're cool with this outcome but I like living in a prosperous civilization where people don't get killed for speaking inconvenient truths.
Are students failing for questioning M Theory? No. Are they failing for questioning the feasibility of time travel? No. Are they failing for questioning reality? No! The only 'educational discrimination' happening (and thus the only reason for this bill) is Genesis Creationism, an evolutionary and physical impossibility.
Again, you are not going to spin this, it isn't a law stating that students must accept creation, not even that creation will be tought. But a law that petty teachers can't fail children who's parents force them to answer this question this way.
It just days the school can't discriminate against a belief.
What do you think will happen if people are allowed to believe this? Again I graduated from a Jesuit school, 95% of my graduating class continued to college, public schools are utter failures compared. Of course only if college is important, it really isn't. I attended theology classes, and had creation tough to me in school. I don't necessarily reject evolution. I have an MBA, other students I graduated with have doctorates from schools like Harvard, which also has theology classes.
So this revert to the dark ages that you have invented is not reality. Public schools are the dark ages, none of the people I have met from public schools know the first thing about history, math, science, and so on.
You still haven't addressed where you draw the line...
I don't have a problem calling out religion on something like this because they are wrong. They are denying facts and trying to mislead and manipulate people. And I am confident that in a few hundred years they too will see the "light" and change their antiquated opinion just as they did in the past with things like Earth's position in the universe.
You are not addressing your OP, this law isn't forcing kids to accept creation, it's simply illegalizing discrimination against religion.
Please call out religious people to your hearts content, but at least live up to your signature.
Defend to the death peoples right to believe, I do.
We are talking about school here. I said they can believe what they want. What I am saying is if they get evolutionary facts wrong on a test about evolution, they should be penalized for it. You haven't addressed where you draw the line as to where that is acceptable and where it is not. If my religion teaches me 1+1=3, should I automatically pass every math test I get 1+1=2 wrong on?
And you still seem to be implying evolution is a belief- which is just flatout wrong. We aren't talking about a belief vs. a belief here. We are talking about a disproven belief vs. a fact.
What missing link are you referring to? Look at the genomes- they are quite similar and we already know of and have proof of various, now-extinct species after the divergence- Neanderthals, for example. And theory in science is not the same as theory in colloquial usage- I'm pretty sure we've been over this before. Technically, gravity can still fall under the term theory too as can germ theory, but I highly doubt you will dispute the existence and factual basis of those.
Missing link? We have as much hair as chimps (it's just thinner), we have the bipedalism of H. erectus. Most Europeans or European decent people are about 4% Neanderthal. Really, we're the missing link.
What role do you play in the Republican party that gives you such magnificent insights into who controls the party?
If it were true do you thing an establishment republican would have been our nominee?
Students are not exempt from being tested on textbook material, “but no student in any public school or institution shall be penalized in any way because the student may subscribe to a particular position on scientific theories,” reads the bill
The sky will not fall. Students still have to take the same tests and pass them. I see this as one more opportunity to have teachable moments in the government run classrooms.
Proof of the Low Information Voter
Too late. Obama was re-elected by low information voters. I love that phrase. Thank you Rush Limbaugh.
Too late. Obama was re-elected by low information voters. I love that phrase. Thank you Rush Limbaugh.
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