If Texas has its way, all science books in the US will include Creationism as science. There's a petition to the publishers to publish science, not religious pseudoscience, in science texts.
//http://act.credoaction.com/sign/texas_taliban/?sp_ref=7749449.4.422.e.0.2&referring_akid=8634.5426460.N9cGnd&source=mailto_sp
Signed it.
Quote from: "SGOS"Signed it.
Ditto.
Signed and shared on Facebook.
They'll get their way, but the horse left the barn long ago and is still wondering out where no vegetation grows so the horse is now starving and is nothing but skin and bone.
Signed and shared.
Texas residents, write directly to your board member and let them know that you intend to vote against them if they support the stupidization of textbooks:
//http://www.tea.state.tx.us/Communications/State_Board_of_Education/SBOE_Members_by_District_Number/
This is the letter I sent to my SBoE representative:
QuoteSir:
I believe that religion ought to be kept out of public schooling. I also believe that because religion is faith-based, it is inherently unscientific.
In accordance with those simple principles, I hope that you reject any attempts to insert any creation theology from any religion into the state science curriculum, and textbooks.
"Creation Science" has been ruled unConstitutional for teaching in public schools by the United States Supreme Court. Likewise, "Intelligent Design." Aside from any skepticism concerning the truth-value of the religious claims, allowing them into the curriculum will result in expensive litigation, financed in part by tax dollars -- including my own. This issue has been hashed out in several cases, most notably McLean v Arkansas and Kitzmiller v Dover Area School District. Does it not strike you as very wasteful to provoke litigation on a matter which has already been settled?
Furthermore, even if such a policy could withstand court scrutiny -- and surely you can read those tea-leaves as well as I, and see that it cannot-- even if it was upheld, the state would likely then face lawsuits asking why this religion's creation tale is taught, but the litigant's is not taught.
For these reasons, I urge you to reject any insertion of any religious creation myth into the state curriculum, and textbooks.
Your vote on this matter will directly affect my vote if and when you stand for re-election.
Yours sincerely,
Quote from: "jansnyder"Sometimes I think the people down south are not so much Christian but perversely trying to get revenge on the rest of the USA from losing the civil war by forcing religion onto the greater population of America, and that if Texas were to secede and become a Republic, their religious mania would dwindle out, having lost the focus of its vengefulness. They are like idealistic children that, as long as they have an establishment to rebel against, will be rebellious.
Sort of like in the 1960s, there were a lot of hippies that were Christians as a part of a rebellion against the establishment or "system".
And I read a book called "A Maggot", by John Fowles, and he made a point that the Quakers and Puritans and such that rebelled against England were merely enacting a rebellion against the establishment of the UK. And history shows, when the Puritans in New England lost the focus of their rebellion, namely the UK, they became extremely liberal, and their descendants now allow gay marriage in the Unitarian Universalist church.
My sister and her husband were Quakers. They even accept atheist into the church. =D> Solitary
Quote from: "Thumpalumpacus"Texas residents, write directly to your board member and let them know that you intend to vote against them if they support the stupidization of textbooks:
//http://www.tea.state.tx.us/Communications/State_Board_of_Education/SBOE_Members_by_District_Number/
This is the letter I sent to my SBoE representative:
QuoteSir:
I believe that religion ought to be kept out of public schooling. I also believe that because religion is faith-based, it is inherently unscientific.
In accordance with those simple principles, I hope that you reject any attempts to insert any creation theology from any religion into the state science curriculum, and textbooks.
"Creation Science" has been ruled unConstitutional for teaching in public schools by the United States Supreme Court. Likewise, "Intelligent Design." Aside from any skepticism concerning the truth-value of the religious claims, allowing them into the curriculum will result in expensive litigation, financed in part by tax dollars -- including my own. This issue has been hashed out in several cases, most notably McLean v Arkansas and Kitzmiller v Dover Area School District. Does it not strike you as very wasteful to provoke litigation on a matter which has already been settled?
Furthermore, even if such a policy could withstand court scrutiny -- and surely you can read those tea-leaves as well as I, and see that it cannot-- even if it was upheld, the state would likely then face lawsuits asking why this religion's creation tale is taught, but the litigant's is not taught.
For these reasons, I urge you to reject any insertion of any religious creation myth into the state curriculum, and textbooks.
Your vote on this matter will directly affect my vote if and when you stand for re-election.
Yours sincerely,
Well-stated. Unfortunately, I doubt they'll listen. The only way to deal with these people is to vote them out, but as if that's going to happen in this red-as-a-baboon's-ass state.
Quote from: "jansnyder"Sometimes I think the people down south are not so much Christian but perversely trying to get revenge on the rest of the USA from losing the civil war by forcing religion onto the greater population of America
Having lived in the south, you should know better. Most of these people actually believe the crap (as much as someone with that much lack of intelligence can be said to believe anything).
Quote from: "Mathew"Well-stated. Unfortunately, I doubt they'll listen. The only way to deal with these people is to vote them out, but as if that's going to happen in this red-as-a-baboon's-ass state.
Well, you can vote, or not.
Not voting doesn't seem to be a promising solution.
No offense but I am not familiar with this company, or the url. I am very picky about who I give my personal info to.
Quote from: "Thumpalumpacus"Texas residents, write directly to your board member and let them know that you intend to vote against them if they support the stupidization of textbooks:
//http://www.tea.state.tx.us/Communications/State_Board_of_Education/SBOE_Members_by_District_Number/
This is the letter I sent to my SBoE representative:
QuoteSir:
I believe that religion ought to be kept out of public schooling. I also believe that because religion is faith-based, it is inherently unscientific.
In accordance with those simple principles, I hope that you reject any attempts to insert any creation theology from any religion into the state science curriculum, and textbooks.
"Creation Science" has been ruled unConstitutional for teaching in public schools by the United States Supreme Court. Likewise, "Intelligent Design." Aside from any skepticism concerning the truth-value of the religious claims, allowing them into the curriculum will result in expensive litigation, financed in part by tax dollars -- including my own. This issue has been hashed out in several cases, most notably McLean v Arkansas and Kitzmiller v Dover Area School District. Does it not strike you as very wasteful to provoke litigation on a matter which has already been settled?
Furthermore, even if such a policy could withstand court scrutiny -- and surely you can read those tea-leaves as well as I, and see that it cannot-- even if it was upheld, the state would likely then face lawsuits asking why this religion's creation tale is taught, but the litigant's is not taught.
For these reasons, I urge you to reject any insertion of any religious creation myth into the state curriculum, and textbooks.
Your vote on this matter will directly affect my vote if and when you stand for re-election.
Yours sincerely,
Well said with precedence to back it up.
Quote from: "Brian37"No offense but I am not familiar with this company, or the url. I am very picky about who I give my personal info to.
You and me both. Solitary