Northwest Indiana Discussion

You know the rest.
Next will the requirement to teach bloodletting in our medical schools.

Ind. Senate panel votes to let schools teach creationism

By Dan Carden
INDIANAPOLIS | An Indiana Senate committee on Wednesday endorsed teaching creationism in public schools, despite pleas from scientists and religious leaders to keep religion out of science classrooms.

Senate Bill 89 allows school corporations to authorize "the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life" and specifically mentions "creation science" as one such theory.

State Sen. Scott Schneider, R-Indianapolis, who voted for the measure, said if there are many theories about life's origins, students should be taught all of them.

But John Staver, professor of chemistry and science education at Purdue University, said evolution is the only theory of life that relies on empirical evidence from scientific investigations.

"Creation science is not science," Staver said. "It is unquestionably a statement of a specific religion."

The Rev. Charles Allen, head of Grace Unlimited, an Indianapolis campus ministry, said students would be served better by teaching religion comparatively, rather than trying to "smuggle it in" to a science course.

The Republican-controlled Senate Education Committee nevertheless voted 8-2 to send the legislation to the full Senate

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LOL, there you have it

Intelligence Study Links Low I.Q. To Prejudice, Racism, Conservatism

Well, there is a professor of chemistry and a religious leader who both have some credible objections to the bill, but what I find interesting is the folks who get the most spun up about even mentioning creationism in schools, at least in the case, are newspaper editors, politicans, the unemployed, public employees--your basic cross-section of the low-livian Lake County/south suburban populace. Each and every one of you people had the chance to study math and science to your heart's content in high school and to pursue it in college. Instead, you found it more expedient to draw fighter planes and race cars during those classes and then spending study time playing with those triangular paper footballs. It's not going to amount to a hill of beans, especially to students in the hellholes north of 80/94, who's abilities are at best minimal.

Well no, it's actually folks who have brains who object to teaching religious fairy tales in PUBLIC schools. These folks live in every county of the state & every state in the union.

Your lame attempt at bashing the unemployed, public employees and the Lake County/south suburban populace is absurd & pathetic. It also makes no sense.

The first part is true. But just as many realize that a quick mention of creationism in any class, be it the hard sciences, the social sciences, history, English, whatever will have next to no impact on what the students think. The smart students will take it in stride, embrace it wholly, halfway, or reject it and that will be that. The dumb kids, which Da' Region and the south suburbs have in spades, won't even be paying attention and will end up unemployed, punching a clock at Wal Mart, cleaning hotel rooms, or working for some level of government. The very luckiest among them will tap relatives for a dwindling number of higher paying union jobs and work in that area until it becomes extinct. Da' Region and the south suburbs also have those in spades.

I suspect guys like you and Sparks were the latter type of student. Teachers could try to cram calculus and honors physics down your throats and you'd be doodling in the back of the class room. Ditto for creationism. If a teacher asked either of you which particular subject a given day's lecture covered, you wouldn't have been able to answer. Calculus and physics are beyond you and you trash creationism because it supposedly makes you sound worldly. Few worldly people live where you do. You had the chance to take all the science and math the instructors could dole out and run with it. Instead, you ended up hanging around with business owners who cut lawns, traffic in balsa wood airplanes, and cobble crates together. Honest enough work, but hardly the place where staunch believers in rigid scientific and mathematical instruction wind up.

Some people are easily scared.

As for the first part of the statement, you could substitute unions or illiterate Black rent-a-mobs anywhere and the passage would apply to the Democrats.

actually it's this ridiculous BHO bullshit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ty7WU872Lk

LaughingAtLakeCo wrote:

Nah, it looks like ya'll, the conservative Bible thumpers down south have it all locked up:
Kentucky Creationism Theme Park Set To Open In 2014 Will ‘Include Dinosaurs’


Well no, fact is I had no problem with calculus, physics, social science, history or English. I suspect you didn't either as you were intellectual but socially-impaired and alas, not very gifted as an athlete, perhaps an obsessive person who spent inordinate amounts of time reading your calculus and physics text books. You were the annoying nerd with the pocket protector frantically waving your hand whenever the teacher asked a question. You were the male version of Tracy Flick. I bet you were the last one picked for dodgeball in gym class or touch football during recess. You know, I bet you really_really hated gym class, didn't you..

Laffy, you're probably still a klutz.

All except for the towel snapping in the showers.

And you can post all the disparaging articles you wish about Kentucky, Mississippi, West Virginia....wherever. As long as crapholes like Hammond/Gary/East Chicago/Whiting, Lansing, Calumet City, Markham, Ford Heights....you name it....exist on the map, Da' Region and the South Suburbs will always make Appalachia seem like Paris or Vienna by comparison.

There must be a reason for all this intense hatred and vitriol towards certain parts of da' region by Laffy, our "job creator" elitist snob. Gee, I wonder why...

Hmmmmmmmm....let me guess, Lafffy was getting wedgies & getting stuffed in lockers in.....
is it Hammond, yes?