An Oklahoma State Senate bill proposed by Randy Brogdon would require educators to critique and find alternatives to scientific controversies.
Sounds like a great idea, right?
Not exactly. The “Scientific Education and Academic Freedom” act specifically states its purpose is to:
“assist teachers to find more effective ways to present the science curriculum where it addresses scientific controversies” and permit teachers to “help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories pertinent to the course being taught.”
The problem is that the only scientific issues mentioned as controversial are “biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.”
In other words, it is not about academic freedom, but political agendas. This bill is the first bill of the new year to undermine generally accepted scientific theories.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThis is precisely why the rest of the world is going to eat our lunch in the next decades. How do Americans expect to compete with the advanced nations of the world when 14% of adults can’t read and the majority want their kids taught that logic and scientific thought are evil?
Israel is occupying Palestinian lands, and instead of conforming to the security council’s resolution and retreat from Palestinian occupied lands, it brings settlers, women and children, and build settlements on the occupied lands to impose new reality defying the international law. Hamas is rocketing Israelis occupying the occupied lands, which is a legitimate resistance according to the international law. Israel, instead of stopping building settlements in occupied lands, and retreating from the occupied lands, they make a massacre to erase Gaza from the map. After all this, Hamas is considered terrorists! and Israel is defending itself. Hamas is hiding among civilians and Israel is protecting its citizens! What kind of logic is this? Hamas is not hiding among anybody, hamas are the natives, they belong to Gaza, its their land, they are the dwellers, the owners, if they leave Gaza, where do they go? well I know if settlers leave Gaza where will they go, they will be conforming to UN resolution. So who is hiding among civilians here? who is occupying the other? is it Palestinians who are occupying Israel or Israel is occupying Palestine? Is there any justice in this world?
Levni says “we don’t have any problems with Palestinians our problem is with hamas”, in other words, “we want to occupy Palestinian lands and siege Palestinians, if they accept then we don’t have any problem with them, we only have problems with those who refuse to be occupied or to be in siege”
I hope you are enjoying the inevitable bloodshed of children.
If this coward operation weakens hamas it is going to weaken them in favour of al-qaeda.
Let me explain more, among the alleged “terrorist” groups, Hamas and Hizbollah are considered moderate, or even retreating, because they are concerned with national liberation, that is: liberating only my country from the occupier. As Nassrallah said: freeing Palestine is the Palestinian business, we support them with moral solidarity, but we are Lebanese, freeing Lebanese territories is our only business.
That is what is called national liberation movement.
While al-qaeda members believe in international liberation, that is to say: we are not going to be able to free our territories unless we destroy the imperialist system. We belong to the world and we have to liberate the world from such a system. (you know they are closer to Bush’s pattern of thinking – democratizing the world or freeing the world)
So when Israel commits such a massacre for babies and children and women, and the “civilized” world find excuses for Israel, and blame the victim instead of blaming the aggressor, the new generation will grow to believe that it is really not a problem of Israeli occupation, it is a problem of international imperialist system which backs Israel. By now, I know some youth who started to say: it seems that bin Laden was right, our battle is not on our lands, we are not allowed to free our lands because of the accomplice of the world.
Again, when people are occupied what usually they do? What did French do when they were occupied by the Nazi? What did George Washington do when he was leading the independence war? What did Churchill do when he was facing Germany? What usually people do to liberate their occupied lands?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkZ-gCPbRYM&feature=channel_page
enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HQO0774lx4&feature=PlayList&p=4199C9262539936D&index=0&playnext=1
look at the Israeli mercy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgeqrs5ePLU
THE UNITES STATES – BESIDES THE VETO – INCREASED ITS AID TO ISRAEL
I don’t think you work hard to spend your taxes on this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgeqrs5ePLU
As a former Oklahoman (now living in Washington) this kind of crap doesn’t surprise me. I left OK due to the disdain of “smart” people. To think… a state that looks down at smart people!
No wonder McCain won by the largest margin in OK!
Al Gore very recently said that the northern polar ice cap will be completely gone in five years. To view the video, visit my site and click on the picture of Al Gore holding up five fingers.
http://www.hootervillegazette.com
It seems like a rather risky prediction on his part. In five years, if it doesn’t happen, he’ll either have to admit he was wrong or take credit for saving the planet. Hmmmmmmmm, I wonder which one he’ll do???
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