This is a dead horse. I hope you don't find me to be completely biased against religion. If you get to know me, you will find that I have more faith than most religious people- I just don't know what it is that is out there. But this is entirely a matter of metaphysics, outside this slight rant and presentation of a few articles.

Science is

There is nothing about creationism that is science. It has no verifiable evidence that justifies its hypotheses about reality. Yet one in eight biology teachers teach creationism and Intelligent Design as an alternative to his theory (2). ID / creationism is not a viable theory, therefore how can these be biology teachers have studied science yet have forgotten that definition above?

However, this opens a wonderful door. I was never a fan of the Judeo-Christian God, and am myself a Pastafarian. Can I get a "Raman!" Your sarcasm spidey-sense should be tingling by now. What makes the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory of creation so much fun is that it has testifiable statistics that show a strong correlation that the FSM has influenced the world with his noodily appendage. (3) Now if you have every once taken a statistics class you will know that statistics is a mathematical branch of sheer nothingness. The first thing ever drilled into my notebook was, "Correlation does not equate causality." That statement should be obvious.

So without anything more- our solutions to this wonderful problem. Either

1. Stop teaching creationism in a science class. Leave it in a philosophy / religions of the world class (that I strongly feel should be taught to every school child); or
2. In addition to creationism, school teachers have to teach all [religously based] alternatives to Darwin's theory of evolution, regardless if the biology teachers agree with them or not.
   

Seems reasonable to me.

Now the articles that bring about this rant.


View: One in Eight U.S. Biology Teachers Teaches Creationism (05.23.2008 at 12:12 pm)
Source: Popsci
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( Abstract: 'Survey reveals that creationism and ID are hardly extinct in high schools' )



View: Open Letter To Kansas School Board (y2006 m08 d20 h08)
Source: Venganza
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( Abstract: 'I am writing you with much concern after having read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design should be taught along with the theory of Evolution.' )

Where does one begin? How does one compose one's thoughts into a single document that perfectly expressed the emotions, feelings, thoughts, and ideas of an exact moment? Is it even possible to express the entirety of more than 10 billion neurons given so few words? Why would I even blog?

Basically, I blog much more for myself. I need something remotely creative with which to express myself. If I find something interesting, I want to save it somewhere that is accessible to me at all times. Some times it is an article about higher dimensions, or a report demonstrating the potential for integrating facial-recognition software with public viewing cameras. Whatever it is, it caught my attention, and I think there are others that would like to know it. If you care, jolly good, if you don't care, I am not the least offended.

You come to find out that there are a few things I enjoy to research. The first will be computers. If you are paranoid and like computers, you will probably like a few of my entries to come. Next, I enjoy discussing the news and the ramifications of events on the present. You'll probably see a biased side to me- I lean towards liberal/Democratic/left side but sometimes you might find my thoughts a bit... extreme. Always try to remind yourself, if you can't believe what is written there, just think it is a joke and move on. If you want to debate it, go ahead.