What is so unnerving about these idiots is that they do not have the slightest idea of what they are talking about. Many is the time I've asked some "scientific" idiot to rank the terms they bandy about as if they knew what they meant. Ask almost any idiot: Rank these words from least "useful" to a scientist to most "useful"......fact, hypothesis, theory, law. I guarantee you, Ms. Ruzicka has already screwed-up the ranking. The ranking, by the way, is fact, hypothesis, law, theory. Somehow, in their minds, a "fact" is some holy thing, rather than a confirmed observation. Did all of these idiots sleep through their Jr. High science class or was I blessed with good teachers in Moab? No matter how many idiots vote that Earth is flat, Sun orbits Earth or that 2 + 6 = 94 (base 10 numbering system) it just is not so. It's hard for kids to have a fighting chance in this world when their parents are so dumb. I'm not pulling any punches any longer. These people are idiots and that includes Bush. On Nov 17, 2005, at 9:42 AM, David Moulton wrote:
I think Buttars is interested in getting us started down the slippery slope.
"...We want young people who have been taught something else to not doubt what they've been taught (by being) given information that evolution is a fact..." - Gayle Ruzicka
We need to give our kids more credit. We treat them like idiots, and thats what we'll get. I think we need to remind our legislators about what happened to the Dover, PA schoolboard. Then again, Pat Robertson might come after us, although I suspect he thinks God has it in for Utah anyways. ;)
Religion belongs in the home and in the neighborhood chapel.
dm
Don't worry Patrick. He can propose all the stupid bills he want's, I think pressure from the public and semi conscious legislators will do the right thing in the end and keep science as science. You noticed that he seems to have backed away a bit from his original stance. The people who oppose his view should continue to pressure their representative and make their views known.
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