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Infantile idiotic response.Go light a fart and let us know what happens next.
You cannot provide solid evidence that climate change is driven by human activity?
Infantile idiotic response.Go light a fart and let us know what happens next.
What completely disgusts me about Louisiana's so called "academic freedom law" and it's attack on sound science education and modern biology is that it was signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindhal who has a biology degree from Brown University. They ought to take it back.This is staggering.. and people have the bloody cheek to talk about Islamists wanting to take the world back to the 7 Century.
Four US states considering laws that challenge teaching of evolution
Critics charge 'academic freedom' legislation in Colorado, Missouri, Montana and Oklahoma is just creationism in disguise
Paul Harris in New York
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 31 January 2013 16.31 GMT
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Four US states are considering new legislation about teaching science in schools, allowing pupils to to be taught religious versions of how life on earth developed in what critics say would establish a backdoor way of questioning the theory of evolution.
Fresh legislation has been put forward in Colorado, Missouri and Montana. In Oklahoma, there are two bills before the state legislature that include potentially creationist language.
A watchdog group, the National Center for Science Education, said that the proposed laws were framed around the concept of "academic freedom". It argues that religious motives are disguised by the language of encouraging more open debate in school classrooms. However, the areas of the curriculum highlighted in the bills tend to focus on the teaching of evolution or other areas of science that clash with traditionally religious interpretations of the world.
"Taken at face value, they sound innocuous and lovely: critical thinking, debate and analysis. It seems so innocent, so pure. But they chose to question only areas that religious conservatives are uncomfortable with. There is a religious agenda here," said Josh Rosenau, an NCSE program and policy director.
In Oklahoma, one bill has been pre-filed with the state senate and another with the state house. The Senate bill would oblige the state to help teachers "find more effective ways to represent the science curriculum where it addresses scientific controversies". The House bill specifically mentions "biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming and human cloning" as areas that "some teachers are unsure" about teaching.
In Montana, a bill put forward by local social conservative state congressman, Clayton Fiscus, also lists things like "random mutation, natural selection, DNA and fossil discoveries" as controversial topics that need more critical teaching. Meanwhile, in Missouri, a bill introduced in mid-January lists "biological and chemical evolution" as topics that teachers should debate over including looking at the "scientific weaknesses" of the long-established theories.
Finally, in Colorado, which rarely sees a push towards teaching creationism, a bill has been introduced in the state house of representatives that would require teachers to "respectfully explore scientific questions and learn about scientific evidence related to biological and chemical evolution". Observers say the move is the first piece of creationist-linked legislation to be put forward in the state since 1972.
The moves in such a wide range of states have angered advocates of secularism in American official life. "This is just another attempt to bring creationism in through the back door. The only academic freedom they really want to encourage is the freedom to be ignorant," said Rob Boston, senior policy analyst at Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Over the past few years, only Tennessee and Louisiana have managed to pass so-called "academic freedom" laws of the kind currently being considered in the four states. Barbara Forrest, a philosophy professor at Southeastern Louisiana University and close observer of the creationism movement, said that the successes in those two states meant that the religious lobby was always looking for more opportunities.
She said that using arguments over academic freedom was a shift in tactic after attempts to specifically get "intelligent design" taught in schools was defeated in a landmark court case in 2005. Intelligent design, which a local school board in Dover, Pennsylvania, had sought to get accepted as legitimate science, asserts that modern life is too complex to have evolved by chance alone. "Creationists never give up. They never do. The language of these bills may be highly sanitized but it is creationist code," she said.
The laws can have a direct impact on a state. In Louisiana, 78 Nobel laureate scientists have endorsed the repeal of the creationist education law there. The Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology has even launched a boycott of Louisiana and cancelled a scheduled convention in New Orleans. Louisiana native and prominent anti-creationist campaigner in the state Zack Kopplin said that those pushing such bills in other states were risking similar economic damage to their local economies. "It will hurt economic development," Kopplin said.
There is also the impact on students, he added, when they are taught controversies in subjects where the overwhelming majority of scientists have long ago reached consensus agreement. "It really hurts students. It can be embarrassing to be from a state which has become a laughing stock in this area," Kopplin said.
Others experts agreed, arguing that it could even hurt future job prospects for students graduating from those states' public high schools. "The jobs of the future are high tech and science-orientated. These lawmakers are making it harder for some of these kids to get those jobs," said Boston.
No and you obviously don't know what a scientific theory is.Science can teach unproven theories as fact though?
I see.....now show me where "global warming" is a generaly accepted scientific theory. Provide a credible citation.Global warming.
Dont be drawn on this. It matters not whether man caused or had anything to do with climate change. We all, even republicans, have a duty to protect our planet and leave as few footprints as we can. The climate IS changing, it has always changed. There IS more pollution and more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It is LIKELY that that has contributed to climate change but not certain.
It is not about left or right, it is about doing our best to leave a planet worth living on for our children and grandchildren.
Idiots who argue that man did not cause climate change and therefore we need to do nothing have missed the point completely.
This particular idiot exhibits mental health concerns. You, and everyone, would serve him better by ignoring him and encouraging him to seek help. His life has included very unfortunate experiences which seem to be a weight he has difficulty with.
I hope that is not seen as a nasty dig as it is not intended to be.
That's your opinion. Another opinion is your biased based on your political beliefs and/or ignorant on the topic of anthropogenic climate change. Probably both.How am I dictating anything?
Science is pushing a falsehood in claiming that global warming is caused by human activity.
It isn't, but liberal fanatics become violent and abusive when you say it isn't.I see.....now show me where "global warming" is a generaly accepted scientific theory. Provide a credible citation.
That's about the stupidits thing I've ever heard. Do you have even the remotest idea how many tons per day of hazardous air pollutants and green house gases are emitted into the atmosphere and you want to cling to this delusion, this fantasy that human activity doesn't impact climate? You are practicing ostrich science. You're just another lay neophyte making arguments about science when you don't even know what a scientific theory is nor even understand how the scientific method works. You're just making a circular argument. You're like PiMP with out his rhetorical flourishes.So you cannot prove climate change is a result of human activity?
You will however push it as a fact, vigorously, oppressively and violently.
Ahh I see....so scientist are these things. these irrational objects you call "liberal fanatics". Yea....sure....right!It isn't, but liberal fanatics become violent and abusive when you say it isn't.
No one has argued that the pollutants are there, just that no solid evidence exists to tie them to climate change.That's about the stupidits thing I've ever heard. Do you have even the remotest idea how many tons per day of hazardous air pollutants and green house gases are emitted into the atmosphere and you want to cling to this delusion, this fantasy that human activity doesn't impact climate? You are practicing ostrich science. You're just another lay neophyte making arguments about science when you don't even know what a scientific theory is nor even understand how the scientific method works. You're just making a circular argument. You're like PiMP with out his rhetorical flourishes.
Apparently they are people who struggle with basic English.Ahh I see....so scientist are these things. these irrational objects you call "liberal fanatics". Yea....sure....right!![]()
Go ahead and show unproven theories which are taught as facts please, or hang your head and shuffle off.
Do it now.
I see.....now show me where "global warming" is a generaly accepted scientific theory. Provide a credible citation.
Dont be drawn on this. It matters not whether man caused or had anything to do with climate change. We all, even republicans, have a duty to protect our planet and leave as few footprints as we can. The climate IS changing, it has always changed. There IS more pollution and more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It is LIKELY that that has contributed to climate change but not certain.
It is not about left or right, it is about doing our best to leave a planet worth living on for our children and grandchildren.
Idiots who argue that man did not cause climate change and therefore we need to do nothing have missed the point completely.
This particular idiot exhibits mental health concerns. You, and everyone, would serve him better by ignoring him and encouraging him to seek help. His life has included very unfortunate experiences which seem to be a weight he has difficulty with.
I hope that is not seen as a nasty dig as it is not intended to be.
Man is causing global warming/climate change
So you cannot prove climate change is a result of human activity?
You will however push it as a fact, vigorously, oppressively and violently.
Show me factual evidence that emotion exists!
Scientific evidence of course!
I see.....now show me where "global warming" is a generaly accepted scientific theory. Provide a credible citation.
OK 007, now show where it is taught as fact. Note that in this case, show means present evidence.
CONSENSUS!!!