You know it's an election season when....

[thewayne]

"What I support is putting all science on the table and then letting students decide. I don't think it's a good idea for government to come down on one side of one scientific issue or another, when there is reasonable doubt."
— Michele Bachmann

"I figure you're smart enough to figure out which one is right."
— Rick Perry, on teaching both creationism and evolution in schools

Yes. Because the Iowa(?) legislature once tried to pass a law stating that the value of Pi was 3. And 2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2.

I came across this the week before last:



http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=571


And today, there was an article from the Christian Science Monitor where a high school sophomore sued his teacher because the guy called creationism superstitious nonsense. The court threw out the case. I was particularly impressed by the quote that the teacher said that scientists are continually trying to disprove evolution as part of scientific rigor, creationists are never trying to disprove creationism.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0819/US-judges-rule-for-teacher-who-called-creationism-superstitious-nonsense

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/20/1211256/Teacher-Cannot-Be-Sued-For-Denying-Creationism

Comments

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

Scientists and Creationists don't live on the same planet. They'll meet and argue. The Scientist cites evidence, facts, and logic, the Creationist points to chapter and verse in Genesis, and they both walk away thinking they won the argument.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Sadly, you're probably all too accurate.

[silveradept]

In those instances witnessed and documented, that pretty much is what happened. Both cited their relevant authorities and walked away convinced the other was a deluded fool and would be proven wrong any time now.