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Dionys1 year, 7 months ago
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Keep in mind that the majority of textbooks in this country are published in Texas. Lies and revisionist history have always been a part of public education. One has only to look at the majority of textbooks treatments of Native Americans to see that.
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MonkeyBiz1 year, 7 months ago
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The Texas Board of Education selects the recommended texts for Texas schools. Since Texas is the largest text book market in the country, the publishers write their textbooks to please the Texas BOE. If anyone is not aware of it, the Texas BOE is full of right wing religious extremists that want evolution taught as an "unproven theory," and equal time given to teaching "intelligent design."
Bottom line? If the BOEs in other states aren't watching carefully, textbooks that have been vetted and tweaked by the right wing religiosos in Texas will be issued to students in their schools.
The Texas BOE would love this book. It may be that it is a standard Texas high school text.
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Endoscopy1 year, 7 months ago
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Great. That is better than the left wing revisionists that turn the books into almost junk.
"full of right wing religious extremists that want evolution taught as an "unproven theory," "
Evolution has never been proven. They NEVER found what Darwin said they had to find to prove his theory. Fossil record showing a slow transition from one species to another. They now give out excuses. They use tautologies for dating fossils. A fossil is of a certain age because it is in that strata. That strata is that age because those fossils are in it. The more we learn about microbiology the more impossible the concept of gradual change becomes. Also life beginning in a primordial goo also becomes more impossible.
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Tangent0011 year, 7 months ago
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No science is EVER 'proven', there is merely weight of evidence. Some may use the term 'proof', but they're being epistemologically sloppy. I prefer 'factual' when referring to evolution, in that the vast majority of valid evidence is consistent with Darwinian evolution.
There is no tautology regarding fossils in strata. Strata is dated using radiometric data (I'm talking deep-time isochrons, not carbon dating, mind you), NOT the fossils found within it. On occasion, deposits MAY be dated based on the fossils it contains, but only if confirmed by corroborating neighboring strata and known confirmed radiometric dating based on strata sequence.
Regarding 'primordial goo', if you want to discuss abiogenesis, I'm happy to engage you, as there are indications that deep frozen ice may have played a huge part, but it is a wholly separate subject from Darwinian evolution.
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crespi1 year, 7 months ago
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I wouldn't be mentioning revisionism...
Remember how many ultra-cons are self-admitted liars?
FoxNews winning the right to "legally" lie, Rush Limbaugh admitted he lied saying "I didn't believe half the stuff that I said."
The Fundamentalist Christian at NASA that blocked vital global warming by scientists from the public.
Exxon spending billions on crackpots fake "scientists" to say there is no global temperature change.
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crespi1 year, 7 months ago
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Please refrain from blaming the Democrats for the lies of the Republicans.
It's starting to p*ss me off.
I mean digging through the hundreds of pages of lies and posting them, from 1980 to the present, by the "New Right" and the "Moral Majority" the "Pure Americans" the Neocons and the racist or gay hating Christian fanatics again would be tiring and make you look stupid.
So don't make me do it again please.
Thanks.
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MonkeyBiz1 year, 7 months ago
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"...they're being epistemologically sloppy."
Guilty as charged.
The problem that cons seem to have is that they use the term "theory" as evidence that there is no factual basis, only speculation. In science, a theory is an organized body of knowledge supported by evidence that seeks to explain a particular phenomena or behavior. A theory doesn't rise to the level of a natural law, like "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction," for instance, but it won't survive if there is not a lot of vetted evidence to support it.
Of course explaining this to an obviously uneducated, but highly indoctrinated, right wing zealot is generally a waste of time.
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