James Knott wrote:
Lew Wolfgang wrote:
BTW, not too long ago, it was the policy of the Texas Republicans to oppose critical thinking in the school system. Keep 'em dumb and controllable. Cites please? Not that I'm saying you're wrong, James, I'd just
On 06/26/2013 10:17 AM, James Knott wrote: like to see the context. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-crit...
Here's a good one from that article: "Controversial Theories – We support objective teaching and equal treatment of all sides of scientific theories. We believe theories such as life origins and environmental change should be taught as challengeable scientific theories subject to change as new data is produced." There are still a lot of creations running around. As an example, look at what happened in Dover, Penn. pedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District Also, many on the right refuse to accept the risk of global warming issues, calling the virtually 100% recognition of the problem by scientists "controversial". This is the kind of nonsense that's becoming popular these days. In the past, it was done by the church (and still is), now the right wing politicians. What's worse is the fundamentalists who welcome the coming climate problems as part of the Armageddon. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org