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New Florida law lets any resident challenge whats taught in science classes
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1.21Gigawatts
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You raise your kids to be idiots and then you wonder why they can't get good jobs and blame foreigners and trade deals...
The stupidity on display is baffling.
The stupidity on display is baffling.
Evolution isn't really compatible with the concept of Original Sin, and without Original Sin mainstream Christianity falls apart because it is at the core of it and Jesus' sacrifice is meaningless without it.
old manatee
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This is how The Running Man started.
SaviourMK2
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They can challenge and fail. If they're wrong they're wrong. Plain and simple.
EdibleKnife
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"Unbiased hearing officer", huh? Yeah I bet.
Why not just make it so that any Tom, Dick, or Harry can create an accredited "school" for their bullshit instead of wasting multiple people's time and money.
Scott obviously wants this to erode away any teaching of evolution but it opens the door for people who want to talk about how "the earth is flat" or worse how "black people aren't actually human" or "pre-teens are biologically fit sexual partners and developed enough to wed adults". Lots of ideas that aren't just wrong but cross into disturbing or sick start to flourish when you throw out science.
Why not just make it so that any Tom, Dick, or Harry can create an accredited "school" for their bullshit instead of wasting multiple people's time and money.
Scott obviously wants this to erode away any teaching of evolution but it opens the door for people who want to talk about how "the earth is flat" or worse how "black people aren't actually human" or "pre-teens are biologically fit sexual partners and developed enough to wed adults". Lots of ideas that aren't just wrong but cross into disturbing or sick start to flourish when you throw out science.
Oh you sweet summer child...................................
Seriously what would be considered "unbiasd" also why one aren't you giving him too much power with one what's stopping him being "biased"
Because creationism implies young-earth creationism. The Catholic Church believes in evolution, set into motion by God, with the 6 day creation story not being 6 human days. A lot of the mainstream branches do. It is just that America is stuck with Evangelical Christians and the likes.
Original sin is quite a different beast between branches of mainstream Christianity. Original sin is lot more pronounced in protestanism than Catholicism. Original Sin for a protestant is a sin that you carry personally, for a Catholic Original sin caused man to become man but only Adam was guilty.
I mean, it's not like a Catholic priest came up with the Big Bang theory or anything.
It's only a theory
FF Seraphim
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I am totally sure this will not hinder students' ability to actually learn science in the classroom...
What's US's ranking when it comes to science education compared to the rest of the world? Because I am sure this will cause it to drop some more.
What's US's ranking when it comes to science education compared to the rest of the world? Because I am sure this will cause it to drop some more.
Spaced Harrier
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Hello Turkey.
Imperfected
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It's just erosion. Everyone knows about erosion. All the land on earth will erode eventually, Jesus said so.
Smiles and Cries
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Some people really love magic. To be fair, Science is fucking hard work to keep up with.
Zeus was once a God that people believed in. They created laws and society around him. So if Science is ever going to win over minds, we will have to wait until the new wave of Gods also die off, if they ever do. Humans really love this shit. We die for this shit. Passing laws to promote your faith is nothing new.
I am kinda shocked no one has yet to declare themselves the Science Pope and try to spiritualize the shit out of it. I guess a religion where questions are encouraged would not last anyway.
Zeus was once a God that people believed in. They created laws and society around him. So if Science is ever going to win over minds, we will have to wait until the new wave of Gods also die off, if they ever do. Humans really love this shit. We die for this shit. Passing laws to promote your faith is nothing new.
I am kinda shocked no one has yet to declare themselves the Science Pope and try to spiritualize the shit out of it. I guess a religion where questions are encouraged would not last anyway.
Specialmias
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Easy way to break the system, flood it with challenges to everything. Question engineering, round earth and so on.
While you are right they will use this hearing officer to enforce dogma and find ways to further push religious agenda
That's not what I was taught... Maybe Adam was the only one guilty, but all humans carry the sin. Or it wouldn't even make sense to have an exception for Mary, "conceived without sin" so that she could carry Jesus.
(I'm not catholic anymore, I probably haven't ever really been, but I spend (too much) time with this kind of stuff when I was young)
Introduce the flying spaghetti monster in schools!
ShironRedshift
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So... does this law even mention how you determine if someone is actually "unbiased" or not (as in, what factors/guidelines they're supposed to use in making that decision)? Cause I'm gonna go ahead and guess they left that part out for some reason...
Also, fuck Rick Scott and fuck the GOP.
Also, fuck Rick Scott and fuck the GOP.
No. Republicans weaponize ignorance and use it to keep their voters. Most of them don't believe this crap. The other problem is young people don't give a fuck and dont vote.
Generalpsyduck
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Isn't this the same party that constantly fearmongers over sharia law? Sound like they are doing their own version.
SoundofSilence
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Harper Lee was right.
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EdibleKnife
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I mean, would an atheist count as unbiased by Scott's standards? Seems like unbiased will mean, white Christian male as it always seems to with this kind of shit. Somehow if you're white, religious and a guy, you're considered to be default and have no stakes in the outcome of major cultural and social considerations.
There's zero self-awareness among Evangelicals. They consider their religion the one true one that every human is duty bound to live by and every nation is obligated to govern by. But to them somehow that doesn't sound anything like the extremist Muslim ideologies they spend all their time fear mongering. Even if you were to sit them down and break down literally how if they just replaced Christian with Muslim for every instance of their backward ideals, they'd just say "Well Christianity is different" as their only response.
"Do you believe that the Lord God sent his only son down to die specifically for America?"
"No"
"Too biased, not suitable"
It's been that way forever. Make people afraid of something that will never happen while doing it yourself right in front of them.
TheOfficeMut
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The GOP is doing its very best to ensure that the constituents remain ignorant and uninformed.
SoundofSilence
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Trump's favorite people.
BudokaiMR2
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The worst thing is that in most cases Florida actually ranks fairly high in most studies (especially ones that take into account higher education and financial aid availability) in comparison to neighboring states which are honestly a dumpster fire.
The last 2 decades of Republic governors and lawmakers have been doing a damn good job dragging the bar back down to be in line with other parts of the South.
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TheOfficeMut
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I mean, he does love himself after all...
Okay...so now we're going to be disputing science based on "feelings." Great.
Never knew that; that is pretty great!
Never knew that; that is pretty great!
EdibleKnife
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You'd think so but then you'd wonder, why challenge science in the first place when that work has already been done.
A world where public school curriculums are dictated by feelings and not evidence, what a world. If parents truly want their children to adhere to religion and not science then they should just opt for private school. I wouldn't want the ideology of other dipshit parents dictating the direction of publicly funded education.
Fox Mulder
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I would be afraid to send a child to public schools really.
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