Hurrah, creationism in the UK

[Kai]

http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.434.6

 

Apparently, the book uses this picture to make the claim that these caddisflies haven't changed for a few million years, so no animals have ever changed (great logic, isn't it?). If you look closely (as PZ has done already in January), you'll see that it actually depicts a fishing lure! It's a dummy only mimicking a caddis to lure fish to bite. Obviously, the flies made by Graham Owen are good enough to lure not only fish, but also creationists!

 

[Cain]

Yeah, the Vatican has gone pretty much as far as it can go without giving up belief in alot of basic Christian scripture on this issue.

That said, I recall the current Pope is not too impressed with it, and prefers intelligent design.  Thurenz might know more, he is very up on internal politics of the Catholic Church.  There is a lot of resistance from American catholics and the Society of Jesus for the current Pope's position though, so it may not be a huge issue.

The current (catholic) pope *hates* intelligent design, and only barely stopped short of calling it heresy when he was a cardinal.  I'll pull up references if I remember when I'm home, have some of his papers bookmarked.

Unless Ratzinger died while I wasn't paying attention?

Looks like he changed his mind, then.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/aug/28/religion.pope

There have been growing signs the Pope is considering aligning his church more closely with the theory of "intelligent design" taught in some US states.

[Chairman Risus]

Yeah, the Vatican has gone pretty much as far as it can go without giving up belief in alot of basic Christian scripture on this issue.

That said, I recall the current Pope is not too impressed with it, and prefers intelligent design.  Thurenz might know more, he is very up on internal politics of the Catholic Church.  There is a lot of resistance from American catholics and the Society of Jesus for the current Pope's position though, so it may not be a huge issue.

The current (catholic) pope *hates* intelligent design, and only barely stopped short of calling it heresy when he was a cardinal.  I'll pull up references if I remember when I'm home, have some of his papers bookmarked.

Unless Ratzinger died while I wasn't paying attention?

Looks like he changed his mind, then.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/aug/28/religion.pope

There have been growing signs the Pope is considering aligning his church more closely with the theory of "intelligent design" taught in some US states.

INFALLIBLE STFU
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[Reginald Ret]

I say fuck 'em teach creationism but do it sarcastically, only use horribly bad arguments to support it and only after you have taught the kids why those types of argments are faulty.

"non sequitors are bad because the conclusion does not follow logically from the argument"

"creationism is true because god exists"

[Iason Ouabache]

How about just having a critical thinking/logic/scientific method class for all incoming high school freshmen?  Would that be too much to ask for???

[Cain]

Of course, the problem is once people start thinking, they have this annoying habit of not stopping.  And before you know it, they're questioning the BBC and whether science is a culture-bound mode of thought and we've all become effete, latte-drinking postmodernists, tearing apart the foundations of Western rationality and replacing it with a nihilistic discourse of despair and the end of all grand narratives.

Or something.

[Vene]

How about just having a critical thinking/logic/scientific method class for all incoming high school freshmen?  Would that be too much to ask for???

Yes, we can't put that on a standardized test.

[Reginald Ret]

How about just having a critical thinking/logic/scientific method class for all incoming high school freshmen?  Would that be too much to ask for???

Yes, we can't put that on a standardized test.

It would be easier to convince schools to hire only anti-authoritarian teachers who don't give a shit about what is gonna be tested.

[Kai]

How about just having a critical thinking/logic/scientific method class for all incoming high school freshmen?  Would that be too much to ask for???

Yes, we can't put that on a standardized test.

It would be easier to convince schools to hire only anti-authoritarian teachers who don't give a shit about what is gonna be tested.

Which would (in the US) screw the schools over in the long run since test scores now determine funding for individual schools under NCLB.

[Requia ☣]

Wait, so if a school does poorly, you *reduce* its resources?



While we're at it, lets pull cops out of high crime areas, and the military out of the most violent regions.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

As far as I can tell, the Young Earth Creationist/Bible-Humpers are mostly: Baptist, Pentecostal, Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witlesses, and various non-denominationals.

Basically the shit in the flyover states

[Cain]

What the fuck is up with everyone bumping my old threads all of a sudden? Have you really got nothing else better to do than discuss threads from 2008?

[Faust]

2008 was a good vintage.

[Pope eros]

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