Intelligent Design in Schools
Intelligent Design in Schools
I thought there would be a thread on this already, but I couldn't find one.
Anyway, read the following and weep.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/ ... esign/#p3n
Anyway, read the following and weep.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/ ... esign/#p3n
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The one redeeming feature of chiggers is that they can't digest what they bite out of humans, so even as you wish you would die, they do.
That's one more redeeming feature than the legislator in question has.
I'm not particularly concerned about it. There's always some yahoo proposing some version of an ID thing, and Monsanto always makes sure it doesn't make it out of committee, because it would be that much harder to attract scientists here. It's the one useful thing they do IMO, apart from fund my son's education via property taxes.
That's one more redeeming feature than the legislator in question has.
I'm not particularly concerned about it. There's always some yahoo proposing some version of an ID thing, and Monsanto always makes sure it doesn't make it out of committee, because it would be that much harder to attract scientists here. It's the one useful thing they do IMO, apart from fund my son's education via property taxes.
Re: Intelligent Design in Schools
Most of the furore regarding intelligent design as a concept that ought to be taught is that western society is still in reaction against
the deism that was popular in the Englightenment. Which became compulsory by Victorian times. This is why Egyptology, for example is so blinkered and hidebound. It is an intellectual discipline founded by people determined to prove the historicity of Biblical stories. Many of those prejudices are absolutely fundamental to it.
Many people want to blame the controversy over the notion of say, Intelligent Design are concerned about the revival of the sort of fundamntal Pentacostalism that was popular in conservative circles in the 1980s/90s.
The hyper-materialist epistemology, based in Democretean atomism and Epicureanism is something the upper crust of 2d entury Rome would recognize. The idea that there is any mindedness to the reality we inhabit is absolute anathema. Many fear that if we were to even take such a notion at all seriously, then we would be back to rule by theocrats, women would be confined to the home, &c.
the deism that was popular in the Englightenment. Which became compulsory by Victorian times. This is why Egyptology, for example is so blinkered and hidebound. It is an intellectual discipline founded by people determined to prove the historicity of Biblical stories. Many of those prejudices are absolutely fundamental to it.
Many people want to blame the controversy over the notion of say, Intelligent Design are concerned about the revival of the sort of fundamntal Pentacostalism that was popular in conservative circles in the 1980s/90s.
The hyper-materialist epistemology, based in Democretean atomism and Epicureanism is something the upper crust of 2d entury Rome would recognize. The idea that there is any mindedness to the reality we inhabit is absolute anathema. Many fear that if we were to even take such a notion at all seriously, then we would be back to rule by theocrats, women would be confined to the home, &c.
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Re: Intelligent Design in Schools
Choosing between ID and Monsanto? Talk about Charybdis and Scylla.
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Re: Intelligent Design in Schools
Monsanto?
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Re: Intelligent Design in Schools
Look up to what Axordil wrote. Monsanto is standing firm against Creationism.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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Re: Intelligent Design in Schools
Scientists tend to stand against Creationism. Re-read ax's five year-old post and Stop being a concern troll.
When you can do nothing what can you do?
Re: Intelligent Design in Schools
Yeesh. You people seem to dislike CG so much that you seem to interpret everything he says in the most negative light possible.
All he was saying is that if, like Ax's post suggested, the main thing keeping creationism out of schools in his state is Monsanto, then that is a terrible choice - Having to keep one bad thing around (Monsanto) in order to keep out a different bad thing (creationism).
All he was saying is that if, like Ax's post suggested, the main thing keeping creationism out of schools in his state is Monsanto, then that is a terrible choice - Having to keep one bad thing around (Monsanto) in order to keep out a different bad thing (creationism).
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
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I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
Re: Intelligent Design in Schools
Are those literally the only choices?
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Re: Intelligent Design in Schools
I dunno, you'd have to ask Ax since he was the one who said Monsanto keeps creationism out of schools in his area and he doesn't show his face around here very often.
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Re: Intelligent Design in Schools
Thanks. Don't worry about it though.yovargas wrote:Yeesh. You people seem to dislike CG so much that you seem to interpret everything he says in the most negative light possible.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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Re: Intelligent Design in Schools
Terence McKenna had some very interesting ideas about this topic. Evolution and science are not incompatible with disembodied, egregorial entelechies.