Back in 1925 there was the Scopes Trial in Tennessee. A biology teacher was accused of teaching biology in his biology classroom and he was found guilty.
That was 86 years ago, almost a century. Have Christians made any progress towards escaping from the Dark Ages yet?
No.
For example there was an excellent biology teacher in Georgia who had the nerve to teach biology in her biology classroom, despite constant harassment and threats from Christian assholes including the parents of her students and including the school administration. She was alone fighting against idiots, assholes, and uneducated morons. What settled the matter was she showed the Christian retards the Georgia science standards for public schools which required biology teachers to teach biology, also known as evolution.
Those standards were almost destroyed by another uneducated moron who was the education superintendent of Georgia. She announced that she would remove evolution from the science standards because it was too divisive an issue. Translated that means she tried to destroy science education for all students to avoid upsetting Georgia's uneducated morons, also known as Christian tards.
I thought schools existed for students, and not for religious cults. Fortunately the education superintendent, a cowardly stupid asshole, was told she would not be allowed to get away with destroying science education to accommodate her dead Jeebus.
It has been 86 years since the Scopes trial and Christians are still at war against science education. They are enemies of America, equal to terrorists, and guilty of treason.
Should America let stupid assholes make decisions about science curriculums? No of course not, but that's exactly what's been going on and it will never stop until the Christian Death Cult is eradicated.
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Every young American will be a student in at least one science class and that branch of science is biology. For many students this is their last chance to get excited about science. If they're lucky enough to get an excellent biology teacher who refuses to be intimidated by Christian scum, she will make evolution a major part of every biology lesson and the students will quickly learn how to love science because there's nothing more interesting than the history of life.
Unfortunately there is very little chance of getting a science teacher who knows what she's doing. In some states (the Bible Belt of the Deep South) it's more likely the science teacher will be a science denier, a Christian who prefers magic instead of science. These disgusting incompetent know-nothing biology teachers should be fired and publicly humiliated but nobody complains. In fact the students who have already been brainwashed to fear evolutionary biology are pleased to find out their teacher is not interested in teaching them anything. They graduate from high school thinking science is boring and they learn nothing about it.
America needs a president who says "Enough is enough. No more dumbing down science education and no more sucking up to religious cults." He or she would demand and provide money for the best science teachers for all students, including students in America's small towns which are infested with Christians at war against science education.
If Rick Perry is elected to be our president the exact opposite will happen. He has a long history of doing everything possible to destroy science education in Texas and he can be expected to do the same thing for the entire country.
Obama, if he is reelected, could do something about America's disgraceful science education and the equally disgraceful Christian war against it. But I doubt he will do anything. He prefers to pretend to be religious, so he will be reluctant to fight against America's religious assholes.
If only I could come back in one century to see if any progress has been made. Will America wake up and do something to save itself or will America become a backward theocracy like Iran?
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The theory of evolution is a staggeringly beautiful and rather clever concept that aims to describe how animals, plants, bacteria and all other living things have adapted, and continue to adapt, to their surroundings. The theory allows mankind to perceive life's history down the eons and understand how and why all living things came to be.
Evolution is the grand unifying theory of biology. It is a solid core running through all modern research from molecular biology to genomics to ecology. Where once biology was a disjointed group of subjects whose main role seemed to be just to classify life into neat categories, it is now at the forefront of scientific research. Indeed, the study of heredity - genetics - is said to be leading mankind into a biotechnological golden age with ever-more potent pharmaceuticals, cleaner fuels and improved crops.
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Darwin’s great insight that the vast diversity of life on earth arose over time from a common ancestor revolutionized scientific understanding, with substantial benefit to our economy and our well being. Today, evolutionary principles are the foundation of all of modern biology and have led to major advances in fields as diverse as molecular biology, developmental biology, genetics, behavior, and paleontology. Understanding evolution also allows us to identify genes underlying human illness, combat infectious diseases, mitigate impacts of invasive species, and control pathogens and pests of our crops and livestock.
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Biology would not be mere stamp collecting were evolution false (and I don't reject evolution, go figure).
ReplyDeleteEvolutionary theory is basically irrelevant for most practical applications of biological knowledge. Medicine for example doesn't require evolution. Neuroscience, Immunology, Psychology even doesn't require evolution.
Evolution offers us a perspective, a spin if you will on these things, creating potentially new insights, but to claim that it is the lifeblood of biology is just ideological pandering.
MatthewLee, you don't know what you're talking about.
ReplyDeleteRead this from http://www.amnat.org/ASN/evo.html
Darwin’s great insight that the vast diversity of life on earth arose over time from a common ancestor revolutionized scientific understanding, with substantial benefit to our economy and our well being. Today, evolutionary principles are the foundation of all of modern biology and have led to major advances in fields as diverse as molecular biology, developmental biology, genetics, behavior, and paleontology. Understanding evolution also allows us to identify genes underlying human illness, combat infectious diseases, mitigate impacts of invasive species, and control pathogens and pests of our crops and livestock.
MatthewLee, I repeat, you don't know what you're talking about.
ReplyDeleteFrom the National Academy of Sciences
The concept of biological evolution is one of the most important ideas ever generated by the application of scientific methods to the natural world. The evolution of all the organisms that live on Earth today from ancestors that lived in the past is at the core of genetics, biochemistry, neurobiology, physiology, ecology, and other biological disciplines. It helps to explain the emergence of new infectious diseases, the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, the agricultural relationships among wild and domestic plants and animals, the composition of Earth's atmosphere, the molecular machinery of the cell, the similarities between human beings and other primates, and countless other features of the biological and physical world. As the great geneticist and evolutionist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote in 1973, ‘Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.’
MatthewLee, I repeat a 3rd time, you don't know what you're talking about.
ReplyDeleteEvolution is the grand unifying theory of biology. It is a solid core running through all modern research from molecular biology to genomics to ecology. Where once biology was a disjointed group of subjects whose main role seemed to be just to classify life into neat categories, it is now at the forefront of scientific research. Indeed, the study of heredity - genetics - is said to be leading mankind into a biotechnological golden age with ever-more potent pharmaceuticals, cleaner fuels and improved crops.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/pda/A673319
I'll go one step further: Matthew Lee is an ignorant jerk if he really believes what he says.
ReplyDeleteHis statement, "Evolutionary theory is basically irrelevant for most practical applications of biological knowledge. Medicine for example doesn't require evolution. Neuroscience, Immunology, Psychology even doesn't require evolution." is bullshit of the kind spouted by idiotic religious freaks.
In fact, understanding of evolutionary FACT is ESSENTIAL to all of those other sciences, and yes, even to psychology, since brain chemistry, like all other life sciences, is the unquestionable product of millions of years of evolution.
Matthew needs to do some serious reading.
"Evolution offers us a perspective, a spin if you will on these things, creating potentially new insights, but to claim that it is the lifeblood of biology is just ideological pandering."
ReplyDeleteI never denied that it was useful, or that it could generate new insights. I denied that it was fundamental.
To claim that it is fundamental is ahistorical since these studies existed prior to evolution and were coherent, albeit without modern sophistication which while informed by evolution is far from entirely dependent on it. Let us take the structure of the neuron for example. We can use evolutionary theory to inform the WHY of the neural structure, why it has come into existence etc. The actual function of the neuron could care less about punctuated equilibrium or natural selection.
If all you can do is drop a bunch of quoted links than there really is no need for us to discuss anything.
I will ask again, how is it impossible to understand say Jungian psychology sans evolution? I could use Jungian psychology, or Freudian for that matter without even an iota of knowledge about evolution, hence why it isn't necessary for most practical disciplines.
Evolution allows us to make sense of biological history, in the area of biological history I would call it fundamental, and it certainly informs other areas of biology. However, Biology isn't Biological History.
"a bunch of quoted links"
ReplyDeleteDid you read the quotes? Obviously not. Or perhaps you're too stupid to understand.
The members of the National Academy of Sciences, who completely disagreed with your bullshit, are the best scientists in the world. Do you think you know more than them?
Paul was correct. You're an ignorant jerk. I would add you're full of shit.
From your picture I noticed you look like the full-of-shit idiot you act like. You're very young and already you think you know more about biology than the best biologists of the world.
I have a comment policy, Mr. MatthewLee. If somebody pisses me off one too many times, they are permanently banned, and their comments are vaporized. You have already reached that point. Get out.