WELL!!! GOOD NEWS YO' ALL!!!
Here in the Lone Star State of Texas, we all just sent dem dar Creationist folks a packin'!
Like, they is outta here!!!
OK, enough of the redneck lingo, now, back to proper grammar usage.
I just got this in my E-mail from the Texas Freedom Network, the TFN INSIDER with the following link:
http://tfninsider.org/2011/07/22/tfn-st ... ence-vote/
Well, this is certainly some good NEWS! Eh?
Science Education Triumphs in Texas
By TFN
Moments ago TFN released the following statement on the vote this morning at the State Board of Education:
TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK STATEMENT
TFN PRESIDENT KATHY MILLER: TEXAS KIDS, SOUND SCIENCE EDUCATION TRIUMPH IN SBOE VOTE
New Instructional Materials Teach Sound Evolutionary Science
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 22, 2011
Today the State Board of Education voted to adopt the Texas education commissionerâ??s recommended list of science instructional materials. Special interest groups and activists off the state board failed in their efforts to force publishers to change their instructional materials to include arguments against evolutionary science. In addition, the board voted unanimously to reject the adoption of instructional materials from a New Mexico-based vendor that promoted â??intelligent designâ?/creationism.
The following statement is from TFN President Kathy Miller:
â??Today we saw Texas kids and sound science finally win a vote on the State Board of Education. Now our public schools can focus on teaching their students fact-based science that will prepare them for college and a 21st-century economy. And our schoolchildren wonâ??t be held hostage to bad decisions made by a politicized board that adopted flawed science curriculum standards two years ago. Moreover, today we saw that the far rightâ??s stranglehold over the state board is finally loosening after last yearâ??s elections. Thatâ??s very good news for public education in Texas.â?
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The Texas Freedom Network is a nonpartisan education and religious liberties watchdog. The grassroots organization of religious and community leaders support public education, religious freedom and individual liberties.
OK. Since Charles Darwin's theory of Evolution will now be taught in science classes, then I guess, that in our history textbooks, Thomas Jefferson is not expelled anymore, that he also gets to go back to school again, and also, sex education will be properly implemented.
So, welcome back Charley and Jeffy!!!
Ah! Good to see ya guys again! Welcome back! I love ya!
Anyway . . . . . . .
At the TFN web site you can also post comments.
Here is a sample of some reader comments.
OK, some moron posted the following . . .
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mcoville Says:
July 22, 2011 at 11:34 am
I weep for the lost of intelligence in America. Kids are being taught what to think and not how to think.
I pray that those cheering this decision will understand the damage they are doing to the children. Thanks to actions like this we seeing a dumbing down of a younger generation that one day will lead this nation, and God help us when they do.
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And some readers posted in response to mcoville
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Ralph Arvesen Says:
July 22, 2011 at 11:58 am
mcoville â?? thanks for the comment, can you please expand on some of your comments?
â??Kids are being taught what to think and not how to think.â?
I donâ??t understand, kids are being taught science facts, if the facts change, what they will be taught will change. Or are you suggesting since science facts contradict your religious views, they should not be taught in public schools?
â??we seeing a dumbing down of a younger generationâ?
Can you expand on how teaching science facts dumbs down the younger generation?
If it was up to you, how would a 7th grade public school science teacher answer the following student questions?
1) How old is the earth?
2) Is evolution true?
3) Did humans evolve?
Thanks again for posting your thoughts / comment.
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The next response is even better.
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der Brat Says:
July 22, 2011 at 12:00 pm
To mcoville: I suppose you also mourn the absence of stork theory in sex-ed classes, no tooth fairy in economics class, and no flat earth in geography lessons. Yes, for some itâ??s a sad day when science classes have to stick to science and not superstitious fantasy.
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I'll skip some of the responses and go to the ones that are choice. I'm only going to post the comments that are in response to mcoville
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Lorenzo Sadun Says:
July 22, 2011 at 12:52 pm
To mcoville: Students *certainly* need to review the evidence, and not just take evolution on faith. That would be as bad as taking creationism on faith. But they donâ??t need to have a lot of bogus arguments about â??gaps in the fossil recordâ? or â??irreducible complexityâ? thrown at them, and they donâ??t need to have the actual data censored (e.g., what the social conservatives tried to force Holt to do).
What the social conservatives are trying to push isnâ??t thoughtful analysis or clarity. Just the opposite. Theyâ??re merely trying to muddy the waters, so the whole question of evolution descends into a â??he said, she saidâ? narrative, with lots of doubt and little understanding. Thankfully, the board majority rejected that approach.
For the record, there *are* gaps in the fossil record, and irreducible complexity is an interesting concept that sheds light on how evolution follows certain pathways and not others. However, most of the gaps that creationists cite have long been filled, and the biological features that are claimed to be irreducibly complex flat-out arenâ??t. Iâ??d be happy to provide more detail if youâ??re interested.
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I skip some more comments and go on to the next really good one.
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Randy L Benson Says:
July 22, 2011 at 2:20 pm
mcoville: facts are stubborn things; they donâ??t go away when they conflict with your views. or mine.
this decision means that children will learn how to think. they will learn the way things occurred, rather than depending on magic. the place for religion is in church or religious schools; not in public schools and not in science classes.
if religion wishes to intrude in the classrooms, they should do so sensibly: as a course in comparative religions. although most citizens of this country identify with Christianity, all religions are equal in the eyes of government. . .and possibly God as well. no religion should dominate public policy, unless you wish to start us down a road which will end up as another Iran.
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The next one is the last response to mcoville
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Beverly Kurtin Says:
July 22, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Oh how I wish I had been able to be there. Unfortunately, this heat is forcing me to stay inside. First, YIPPIE! And congratulations to TFN for leading the good fight for intelligence. Funny-mentalists will have to move onto other areas such as how Adam and Eve were supposedly created in what today is Iran when science has proven that human life began in Africa. der Brat, your comments were beautiful; I wish I had said what you did.
mcoville is a far right wingnut. Click on his name to see the proof of that statement. He hates Obama and Progressivesâ?¦why is it that people like that think that children must be fed fairy tales in school? He said, â??I pray that those cheering this decision will understand the damage they are doing to the children. Thanks to actions like this we seeing a dumbing down of a younger generation that one day will lead this nation, and God help us when they do.â? Iâ??d like to know how lying to our children is harming them. You want children to believe that rabbits lay multicolored eggs? Do you know that the Hebrew word Pesach was deliberately mistranslated to Easter to bring pagan influences to Christianity? The goddess Ishtar was the goddess of fertility. What procreates faster than rabbits? Telling that lie to kids IS harming them; telling the truth does not.
The damage that was being proposed would damage our children beyond measure and the â??dumbing downâ? is precisely what people like you wish to do. Can anyone with a functioning brain imagine what would happen to a Texas child when attempting to attend a university first heard about evolution in a college class? When he or she said â??No, that is not right! God took some dust and breathed it into it and life happened.â? When the class stopped laughing, I wonder how that â??dumbed downâ? child would feel?
I have studied the Tenach and the Christian books for over 40 years in an attempt to square them with reality. The conclusion I came to was that it was IMPOSSIBLE TO READ THOSE BOOKS LITERALLY. ALL WHO ATTEMPT TO DO THAT IS A MENTALLY UNSTABLE PERSON.
The Amish teach their kids that the earth if flat because one tiny portion of the books say â??the four corners of the earth.â? The problem is that the word is a Hebrew word, KANAPH. It means â??extremityâ? or â??the endsâ? not â??corners,â? yet Amish use the few places in which the word kanaph is used to mean â??corners.â? A youngster who was on his break from the Amish community saw a picture of the earth taken from space to show one of the Amish leaders that the earth was round. The kid was so badly beaten that he almost died. Yeah, thatâ??s the ticket, he really go dumbed down.
Jehovahâ??s Witnesses read that Leviticus 17 said not to eat blood. That was written to the Jewish people, not the world as a whole. But they wonâ??t take a transfusion because they think it is â??eating blood.â? And the word used in that particular chapter is translated as â??abominationâ? which Christians use to damn homosexuals.
I have visited some churches from time-to-time because a friend had asked me to attend their place of worship. I damned near choked to death when the preacher not only mispronounced a Greek word, but gave a totally impossible â??translationâ? of the word; he even misused the tense and voice! My friend asked, â??Isnâ??t he great?â? My answer was to get up and leave. Improper translations, incomprehensible pronunciations are used in by supposedly wise people who donâ??t know an Aleph from an Alpha.
Iâ??m almost done, I just have to thank all who spoke to the board for bringing sense into our schools and to TFN for leading the good fight.
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NOTE:
I high-lighted the part about the Amish boy in red text.
It's tragic that some children here in the USA are getting nearly beaten to death, and some children have died from the beatings by religious fundamentalists.
Yeah! A child gets beaten by elders who believe the earth is flat!
Only in America!
But, that's not at all surprising, especially when I remember back when I was in the 5th grade, I had my head bashed against the corner of a concrete block wall by a sports obsessed teacher in an argument over an astronomy book that he did not want me to check out from the school library.
I could have easily died from my head injuries!
Well, anyway . . . . .
I'm very happy this evening that the ultra-conservative Funny-mentalists Fairytale Believers have been defeated by the more moderate members of our Texas State Board of Education.
Last year, Chairman Don McLeroy was voted out of the Texas State Board of Education and sent packing l, and hopefully, the present Chairwoman Barbara Cargill will also be sent packing because she's just as bad as Don McLeroy. She was appointed to the board by Texas Governor Rick Perry, another right-wing-nut Christard Funny-mentalist who is a devout racist and homophobic fascist!
It's beginning to look like more and more Texans are starting to WAKE UP!!!
OK, to all the moronic Fairytale Believers out there . . . . .
Sorry to have to disappoint yo' all but . . . . .
A man was NOT made from a lump of dirt, a woman was NOT made from one of his ribs, men and woman both have the same number of ribs, there was no magic garden with a magic tree with magical fruit they weren't suppose to eat, and there was no talking snake with legs that tempted them to eat said magical fruit.
Also . . . . .
The earth is NOT a mere 6000 years old!
THE EARTH IS 4.5 BILLION YEARS OLD, AND THE UNIVERSE IS ABOUT 12 BILLION YEARS OLD!!!
Get this into your pointed little heads, ya morons!!!
EVOLUTION IS A FACT! GET OVER IT!
And sorry to have to further disappoint yo' all, but . . . . .
There is no Santa Clause!
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NO! We need to teach sex education in our schools, and not just "abstinence based" either, we need to teach ALL THE SCIENTIFIC BIOLOGICAL FACTS about sex, including birth control, and how to avoid sexually transmissible diseases, including the use of the condom.
FACT!!!
In states that teach ALL THE FACTS in sex education, those states have THE LOWEST RATES of unwanted teen pregnancies.
But, in states that teach no sex education, or "abstinence based" only, those states have THE HIGHEST RATES of unwanted teen pregnancies.
FULL KNOWLEDGE is the best way to reduce the numbers of unwanted teen pregnancies and sexually transmissible disease.
IGNORANCE is the best way to increase the numbers of unwanted teen pregnancies and sexually transmissible disease.
IGNORANCE KILLS!!!
Also, ignorant people kill!!!
So, now that the anti-evolutionists have been roundly and soundly defeated . . . . .
The next thing on the agenda is to implement a scientific fact based sex education in our schools with all the facts of human biology being taught in the classroom.
HEY! It's our bodies! Right?
So, why should knowledge of our very own bodies be kept a secrete from us? Eh?
And so, I say to all of you drooling moronic right-wing Funny-mentalist Fairytale Believers out there . . .
Pack your Gucci bags and . . .
HIT THE FUCKING ROAD!!!
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
Poor 
A greater man than he is required to make much comment at all, except to say that Fat Man has a "thing" with axes in the head. 
My, oh my ... I don't know how to react to this one. Lizzie Borden, look out! 
