{"id":3658,"date":"2011-02-09T18:46:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T00:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/id\/evolution-for-dummies-intelligent-design\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T18:46:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T00:46:36","slug":"evolution-for-dummies-intelligent-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/id\/evolution-for-dummies-intelligent-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution for Dummies: &ldquo;Intelligent&rdquo; &ldquo;Design&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, the liberal use of the word <em>scientific<\/em> in this new anti-science bill would probably preclude teaching \u201cIntelligent Design\u201d (insert dripping sneer ending in puking noise), which&#160; hasn\u2019t the slightest scientific basis. As America falls behind the rest of the world in every way, let\u2019s hand out degrees in stupidity. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/Local%20News\/Bill-promotes-teaching-of--intelligent-design-\">Measure clears way for teaching of &#8216;intelligent design&#8217; &#8211; The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rep. Tom Anderson, R-Albuquerque, said Tuesday that his House Bill 302 is not intended to promote intelligent design or creationism. \u2026 Anderson said, &quot;I&#8217;m just trying to protect teachers. &#8230; I&#8217;m trying to prevent another Galileo,&quot; a reference to the father of modern physics, who was tried during the Inquisition as a heretic. [<em>mjh: Such nobility!<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>The bill says the state &quot;shall not prohibit any teacher, when a controversial <em>scientific<\/em> topic is being taught in accordance with <em>adopted standards<\/em> and curricula, from informing students about <em>relevant scientific information<\/em> regarding either the <em>scientific<\/em> strengths or <em>scientific<\/em> weaknesses pertaining to that topic. A teacher who chooses to provide such information shall be protected from reassignment, termination, discipline or other discrimination for doing so.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The bill lists several protected &quot;controversial scientific topics&quot; including &quot;biological origins, biological evolution, causes of climate change, human cloning and other scientific topics that are often viewed by society as controversial.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/Local%20News\/Bill-promotes-teaching-of--intelligent-design-\">Measure clears way for teaching of &#8216;intelligent design&#8217; &#8211; The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to see a science teacher use this bill to shut up a parent who objects to teaching anthropogenic climate change \u2013 hey, it\u2019s \u201ccontroversial\u201d (with the same idiots evolution is).<\/p>\n<p>[hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerousmeta.com\/\">dangerousmeta<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, the liberal use of the word scientific in this new anti-science bill would probably preclude teaching \u201cIntelligent Design\u201d (insert dripping sneer ending in puking noise), which&#160; hasn\u2019t the slightest scientific basis. As America falls behind the rest of the world in every way, let\u2019s hand out degrees in stupidity. Measure clears way for teaching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/id\/evolution-for-dummies-intelligent-design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evolution for Dummies: &ldquo;Intelligent&rdquo; &ldquo;Design&rdquo;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}