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In reply to the discussion: Kansas Group Tries To Remove Evolution From Schools By Claiming Science Is A Religion [View all]billh58
(6,655 posts)40. I totally agree with members of COPE --
since they have not evolved beyond the single-cell stage, we shouldn't be teaching them complicated shit like science, math, or logic. The Talking Snake can teach them all of the basics they need to know.
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Kansas Group Tries To Remove Evolution From Schools By Claiming Science Is A Religion [View all]
RKP5637
Jan 2014
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The National Center for Science Education calls COPE’s lawsuit “silly” and “frivolous,”
riversedge
Jan 2014
#3
Yep! In short, there just ain't much to work with when all you're talking to with
RKP5637
Jan 2014
#19
Very much a good read: Kansas Board Votes to Adopt Common Science Standards on June 12, 2013
riversedge
Jan 2014
#6
It seems to me they are openly admitting teaching religion amounts to indoctrination
Bandit
Jan 2014
#8
No science is not a belief system, it's a heuristic method, empiricism, that is all.
bemildred
Jan 2014
#9
It's a total mind twister. They make absolutely no sense and have an extremely strange
RKP5637
Jan 2014
#36
What I don't and never have understood is why any of the thinking people that
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2014
#14
There are wackos everywhere, it's just that most places don't put them in charge of anything.
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2014
#20
Many do. I think with better communications of today, etc., many are recognizing more
RKP5637
Jan 2014
#18
why would any thinking person want to live in a state where elected officials would vote for slavery
DrDan
Jan 2014
#33
What Kansas doesn't get (TPTB) IMO is highly educated people leave Kansas. Many people
RKP5637
Jan 2014
#17
Lawsuit to challenge doctors who practice science, Christians seek to bar anyone who studied science
Coyotl
Jan 2014
#22
Definitely what is going on ... in Kansas, for example, there are many schools for
RKP5637
Jan 2014
#37