President Biden wants to protect my favorite creatures. That's a good thing.

Environment Alert May 26, 2:57 p.m. EDT

Biden administration proposes new protections for threatened bird in Southwest, a move that could restrict oil and gas drilling U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are proposing to list under the Endangered Species Act the part of the lesser prairie chicken’s population living in Texas and New Mexico, whose range overlaps with the oil- and gas-rich Permian Basin. The agency stopped short of calling for the same protections for the birds’ northern population, in Oklahoma and Kansas, on the grounds that their numbers were more stable. Read more

I'm adding this to my list of favorite quotes: “If someone believes the entire cosmos is just a few thousand years old, that’s some pretty hard-core science denial."

Very interesting stuff about how to teach science when the students are god-soaked science deniers, aka uneducated morons. I suggest click the link.

Genetic Literacy Project - Teaching evolution to college students with creationist views requires innovative approaches. January 10, 2020.

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Also, there is this stuff about teaching evolution in Idiot America:

Evolution Institute - Why There Still Are Monkeys: Lessons Learned From Teaching Evolution In Kansas

One more thing:

There are dishonest teachers who will tell their moron students they can accept the established truth of evolution and still be a god-soaked fucktard. The problem with being dishonest is everyone knows you're a liar.

If a student says "Do I have to throw out my magic god fairy if evolution is true?" the correct answer is either "YES" or "This is a science classroom, not a fucking church. I teach science here, not theological bullshit."

Many years ago when Kansas tried to give "magical intelligent design creationism" equal time with evolution in public school biology classrooms, a new god fairy was invented called the "Flying Spaghetti Monster". The inventor demanded equal time should be given to its "Noodly Appendage". I'm not making this up.

Touched by His Noodly Appendage, a parody of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, is an iconic image of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Arne Niklas Jansson.

The "Flying Spaghetti Monster" is also known as "FSM".

Today I asked some morons for Jeebus this question:

"What is the one true religion?"

Best answer: "Clearly it's FSM since he boiled for our sins."

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Wikipedia - Everything you always wanted to know about the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism. Pastafarianism (a portmanteau of pasta and Rastafarianism) is a social movement that promotes a light-hearted view of religion and opposes the teaching of intelligent design and creationism in public schools. According to adherents, Pastafarianism is a "real, legitimate religion, as much as any other".[3] In New Zealand, Pastafarian representatives are authorized to officiate weddings.[4][5][6] However, in the United States, a federal court has ruled that the "Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" is not a real religion.[7] In August 2018 the Dutch Council of State also ruled that Pastafarianism is not a religion.[8]

The "Flying Spaghetti Monster" was first described in a satirical open letter written by Bobby Henderson in 2005 to protest the Kansas State Board of Education decision to permit teaching intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in public school science classes.[9] In the letter, Henderson demanded equal time in science classrooms for "Flying Spaghetti Monsterism", alongside intelligent design and evolution.[10] After Henderson published the letter on his website, the Flying Spaghetti Monster rapidly became an Internet phenomenon and a symbol of opposition to the teaching of intelligent design in public schools.[11]

Pastafarian tenets (generally satires of creationism) are presented on Henderson's Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster website, where he is described as "prophet", in The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, written by Henderson in 2006, and in The Loose Canon, the Holy Book of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster'. The central belief is that an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. Pirates are revered as the original Pastafarians.[12] Henderson asserts that a decline in the number of pirates over the years is the cause of global warming.[10] The FSM community congregates at Henderson's website to share ideas about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and crafts representing images of it.[3]

Because of its popularity and exposure, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is often used as a contemporary version of Russell's teapot—an argument that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon those who make unfalsifiable claims, not on those who reject them. Pastafarianism has received praise from the scientific community and criticism from proponents of intelligent design. Pastafarians have engaged in disputes with creationists, including in Polk County, Florida, where they played a role in dissuading the local school board from adopting new rules on teaching evolution.[13]

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There is more stuff about FSM at Wikipedia - Everything you always wanted to know about the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

One more thing: In Idiot America our Christian assholes are constantly trying to stick supernatural magic into science classrooms. I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.