Yes Virginia, There IS a Flying Spaghetti Monster!
13 12 2007Florida’s new science standards are much more enlightened than the old set, and must be approved to save the world from destruction by ignorance –
Flying Spaghetti Monster honors Christmas wearing a Santa Claus hat. . .
We can’t possibly think about science right now. Floridians are too busy collecting signatures to ban gay marriage.
Priorities people! After all, it is the season of brotherly love. But not that kind, apparently.
Nance
From the article: “Intelligent design holds that living organisms are so complex that they must have been created by some kind of higher force.”
I love this argument - nothing as complex as a living organism could possibly exist on its own - without a “higher force” having created it. But the “higher force” (presumably even more complex than the living organism) is allowed to have just always existed. Like magic. I wish I could get away with logic like that, but my seven-year-old would call me on it every time.
Really! I think “algebra” is a sort of high falutin’ and widely inaccessible substitute for what politicians should be demanding all kids master instead, as a sort of gatekeeper (or gateway drug?) to higher education — L-O-G-I-C.
[...] From my secular and professional pov, Florida in all our cosmopolitan diversity and major investments in education, never should have hired her if there was even a whiff of concern, especially with our science standards on the line. [...]
From a comment I made at Daryl’s about whether Christian politics can separate fact from fiction in education or well, anything else.
Choose the correct answer or we all get left behind. (We may get left behind anyway.)
Chalk this one up as a win!
“Evolution Beats Intelligent Design in Florida”
As the Tampa Tribune put it, “Public floggings hurt, even when administered by satirical sacred noodles.
Ask the Polk County School Board. . .”
p.s. Gotta love the part in the newspaper story where these ID-iots blame the newspaper!
Anybody dumb enough to complain to the press, about the press, IN the press, FOR PUBLICATION, is too dumb to be representing the public’s interest in good government of any kind, much less in science education. I guess the good news in this quote would be that the guy doesn’t always vote his own opinion. Maybe he just makes it up as he goes along. . .
Sigh - via Daryl, Taylor County is next (and it’s close to the Capitol, folks, hope that’s just geography!)
OMG! DId you hear the “news”??
Near the Capitol? Where do you think this garbage started?
Nance
Or is it the Governor’s Mansion I am thinking of?
Or the frigging White House!
Nance
So easy to confuse our state and national capitol buildings, I fear — we learned that lesson the hard way, during the Terri Schiavo siege.