From their website:
Many — if not most — Americans think of the creation and evolution controversy as a dichotomy with "creationists" on one side, and "evolutionists" on the other. This assumption all too often leads to the unfortunate conclusion that because creationists are believers in God, that evolutionists must be atheists.
NCSE, I have some problems with your sucking up to Christian tards.
Virtually every American who accepts evolution as pure science (a god fairy did not invent, use, or guide evolution) is an atheist. What's unfortunate is not that they're atheists. What's unfortunate is that these normal people (as in not insane morons) are only 16 percent of the population which is disgraceful.
Unfortunate conclusion, NCSE? It's unfortunate to not be insane? It's unfortunate to not be a gullible superstitious idiot?
It gets worse.
It is highly desirable to move people away from this inaccurate dichotomy. A simple classroom exercise, the Creationism/Evolution Continuum, has been used successfully by middle and high school teachers as well as university professors to illustrate the many intermediate positions between the extremes.
Wait a minute NCSE. Are you saying being an atheist is extreme? Are you saying being a normal person is extreme? Yes, that's exactly what you're saying. You're being dishonest to suck up to Christian assholes and at the same time you are insulting atheists even though you yourselves are atheists. Except in your case it would more accurate to call you wimpy atheists.
The NCSE thinks dishonesty is the best way to convince Christian morons to accept 21st century science. They want to tell Christians it's perfectly OK to pollute evolutionary biology with supernatural magic.
The problem is those Gallup polls that show most Americans who think they accept evolution also think magic is one of its mechanisms. NCSE, how could you possibly call this educational disgrace a good thing? I know why. It's because you're dishonest wimpy suck-ups.
NCSE, the morally correct thing to do is promote scientific literacy while completely ignoring the existence of religious idiots in America. The religious implications of science is their problem. There's no reason to talk about it unless asked. Then the correct answer is virtually all biologists are not theists because they have no need for bullshit fantasies. The truth might scare the cowardly Christians away from science but there's absolutely no excuse for your dishonesty. It's bad enough that virtually all Christians are dishonest assholes. You disgrace yourselves when you're equally dishonest.
Also, Christians know you're lying so why bother to talk about religion? Just promote the established truth of evolution and leave the supernatural bullshit problem out of it like Darwin did in his 1859 Origin of Species.
What about biology teachers in America's idiot Bible Belt? Their students are likely to start crying and complaining when the biology teacher teaches the foundation of biology.
Those teachers might disagree with me but in my opinion the correct response which has the advantage of respecting the Establishment Clause of our constitution would be to say this: "To be fair to the students who came here to learn something instead of complain, I will not allow students to waste precious class time with non-scientific subjects in this classroom, including your religious complaints about science. If you have a problem with that you will fail this class and you will not graduate from high school. Also, if you don't become knowledgeable about the most important basic fact of biology you will fail this class."
If virtually all the Bible Belt students are unable to learn anything because reality makes them mentally disturbed, who cares? They were probably going to grow up stupid anyway.
If there was no Establishment Clause I would suggest my preferred idea which is the science teacher could tell the god infected students their magical creationism fantasy is bullshit and if they're unable to throw that fantasy out they will not graduate from high school. This is of course a violation of our constitution. Fortunately university professors don't have this problem. They are free to tell their religious students their supernatural fantasies are bullshit.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Monday, October 17, 2011
The atheists at the National Center for Science Education like to insult atheists.
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