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"MarkA" |
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17 Nov 2005 12:50:47 PM |
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Send a banner to Kansas. |
Now that the Kansas School Board has seen fit to redefine science to fit
its religious agenda, it might be worthwhile to start a grass-roots
campaign to try to keep the poor Kansas public school students from
slipping back into the Dark Ages. I propose that we start making large
banners, that say "Creationism is NOT science!", and send them to each
public school in Kansas. That way, the science teachers can hang it at
the front of the class room, and the students can refer to it often while
they are being taught the state mandated "Kans-science".
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MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "No 33 Secretary" |
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| Title: Re: Send a banner to Kansas. |
17 Nov 2005 04:43:53 PM |
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MarkA <manthony@stopspam.net> wrote in
news:pan.2005.11.17.12.50.46.568006@stopspam.net:
Now that the Kansas School Board has seen fit to redefine science to fit
its religious agenda, it might be worthwhile to start a grass-roots
campaign to try to keep the poor Kansas public school students from
slipping back into the Dark Ages. I propose that we start making large
banners, that say "Creationism is NOT science!", and send them to each
public school in Kansas. That way, the science teachers can hang it at
the front of the class room, and the students can refer to it often while
they are being taught the state mandated "Kans-science".
I think the better approach would be to encourage universities to refuse to
accept high school transcripts from Kansas high schools, since those
schools do not teach science correctly. Anyone who graduates from a Kansas
high school should automatically be placed in remedial classes if they can
find a university that will accept them at all.
--
"So there is no third law of Terrydynamics."
-- William Hyde
Terry Austin
www.hyperbooks.com
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| User: "thissteve" |
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| Title: Re: Send a banner to Kansas. |
17 Nov 2005 01:30:58 PM |
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MarkA wrote:
I propose that we start making large
banners, that say "Creationism is NOT science!", and send them to each
public school in Kansas.
Can't we just put stickers in their creationist texts? Do they even
have creationist texts?
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: Send a banner to Kansas. |
17 Nov 2005 02:47:36 PM |
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:30:58 -0800, thissteve wrote:
MarkA wrote:
I propose that we start making large
banners, that say "Creationism is NOT science!", and send them to each
public school in Kansas.
Can't we just put stickers in their creationist texts? Do they even have
creationist texts?
Yes, there is a Creationist textbook, "Of Pandas and People", that
promotes the "Gee whiz isn't it great that God made everything fit
together so well" approach to natural philosophy. Happily, the URL
"www.pandasthumb.org" points to a pro-science web site.
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MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Send a banner to Kansas. |
17 Nov 2005 03:31:30 PM |
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thissteve wrote:
MarkA wrote:
I propose that we start making large
banners, that say "Creationism is NOT science!", and send them to each
public school in Kansas.
Can't we just put stickers in their creationist texts? Do they even
have creationist texts?
Yes, it's call the Bible.
nafc
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: Send a banner to Kansas. |
17 Nov 2005 02:20:37 PM |
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MarkA wrote:
Now that the Kansas School Board has seen fit to redefine science to fit
its religious agenda, it might be worthwhile to start a grass-roots
campaign to try to keep the poor Kansas public school students from
slipping back into the Dark Ages. I propose that we start making large
banners, that say "Creationism is NOT science!", and send them to each
public school in Kansas. That way, the science teachers can hang it at
the front of the class room, and the students can refer to it often while
they are being taught the state mandated "Kans-science".
I think a much better approach would be to demand that Kansas teach
astrology, crystal healing and ceremonial magick in their science classes.
Their redefinition of "science" demands this.
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Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"[W]e have never held that moral disapproval, without any other asserted
state interest, is a sufficient rationale under the Equal Protection
Clause to justify a law that discriminates among groups of persons."
- Sandra Day O`Conner, _Lawrence v Texas_
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=02-102
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| User: "Andrew Arensburger" |
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| Title: Re: Send a banner to Kansas. |
17 Nov 2005 04:49:03 PM |
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In talk.origins Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote:
I think a much better approach would be to demand that Kansas teach
astrology, crystal healing and ceremonial magick in their science classes.
Their redefinition of "science" demands this.
You forgot Poland^W the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
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Andrew Arensburger, Systems guy University of Maryland
arensb.no-bloody-spam@umd.edu Office of Information Technology
Send me $50 or I'll claim we had sex!
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| User: "AC" |
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| Title: Re: Send a banner to Kansas. |
01 Dec 2005 09:56:33 PM |
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:20:37 -0800,
Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote:
MarkA wrote:
Now that the Kansas School Board has seen fit to redefine science to fit
its religious agenda, it might be worthwhile to start a grass-roots
campaign to try to keep the poor Kansas public school students from
slipping back into the Dark Ages. I propose that we start making large
banners, that say "Creationism is NOT science!", and send them to each
public school in Kansas. That way, the science teachers can hang it at
the front of the class room, and the students can refer to it often while
they are being taught the state mandated "Kans-science".
I think a much better approach would be to demand that Kansas teach
astrology, crystal healing and ceremonial magick in their science classes.
Their redefinition of "science" demands this.
I'm thinking of sending a banner - "KANSAS: REJECTED EVOLUTION IN 2005,
SUPPLYING IGNORANT LABORERS TO MEXICO IN 2055"
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Aaron Clausen
mightymartianca@hotmail.com
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| User: "John Wilkins" |
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| Title: Re: Send a banner to Kansas. |
01 Dec 2005 11:13:11 PM |
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AC wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:20:37 -0800,
Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote:
MarkA wrote:
Now that the Kansas School Board has seen fit to redefine science to fit
its religious agenda, it might be worthwhile to start a grass-roots
campaign to try to keep the poor Kansas public school students from
slipping back into the Dark Ages. I propose that we start making large
banners, that say "Creationism is NOT science!", and send them to each
public school in Kansas. That way, the science teachers can hang it at
the front of the class room, and the students can refer to it often while
they are being taught the state mandated "Kans-science".
I think a much better approach would be to demand that Kansas teach
astrology, crystal healing and ceremonial magick in their science classes.
Their redefinition of "science" demands this.
I'm thinking of sending a banner - "KANSAS: REJECTED EVOLUTION IN 2005,
SUPPLYING IGNORANT LABORERS TO MEXICO IN 2055"
What makes you think it will be that long? 2025...
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John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
Nihil tam absurdum quod non quidam Philosophi dixerit - adapted from Cicero
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