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Originally posted by PsychoPawn
Whatever you want.

I will still complain about you misrepresenting what I say even if it's outside of a reply with a quote though. Doing it without quoting me doesn't change what you're doing.
It's a free country. Complain as you see fit. I do.🙂

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Originally posted by PsychoPawn
I remember really liking those grades and those were the first real science classes I had. Those classes actually didn't handle biology really at all, just chemistry and physics really.

I figured you wouldn't and you shouldn't, but as someone who wouldn't lose anything from it, I think it would be funny.
Life Science is 7th grade.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Life Science is 7th grade.
I kinda wish I went to school here then 🙂 They didn't have that class in grade 7 in Toronto.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Look at this statistic:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13930-16-of-us-science-teachers-are-creationists.html
Good grief.
It would seem that these creationists are deliberately going into science-teaching to spread their word (rot the system from the inside out, say).

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Originally posted by shavixmir
Good grief.
It would seem that these creationists are deliberately going into science-teaching to spread their word (rot the system from the inside out, say).
More than a little sick, eh.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
Good grief.
It would seem that these creationists are deliberately going into science-teaching to spread their word (rot the system from the inside out, say).
Good for them! Let them all get bachelors' in science. Maybe it will wake some of them up.

Let the rest of them compete with me. I'm not worried about those fools.

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Hmmm, I have never heard about anything like this in my country. Everyone I know, who is taking biology class, gets normal evolution theory. We were thought in history about creationism but only briefly at the beginning of the course. The most popular theories of origin were discussed and that's the only time we had creationism brought up in school. Of course I have heard and read about it elsewhere and strongly disagree and, as bad as it may sound, I feel sorry for the students who are taught creationism instead of evolution.

Just my 0.02$

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Originally posted by kbaumen
Hmmm, I have never heard about anything like this in my country. Everyone I know, who is taking biology class, gets normal evolution theory. We were thought in history about creationism but only briefly at the beginning of the course. The most popular theories of origin were discussed and that's the only time we had creationism brought up in school. Of cours ...[text shortened]... I feel sorry for the students who are taught creationism instead of evolution.

Just my 0.02$
That's because this is only a "controversy" in the US where the religious people who want to push their religion have invented a political controversy to try and get their religion into the science classroom to try and do a run around the constitution that says you can't teach religion in the classroom.

Fortunately for other countries in the modern world they don't appear to have these movements.

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Another kick in the pants for US science education:

http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/05/7th_grade_scien.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1841220/posts

Brian Benson, an eighth-grade student who won first place in the Life Science/Biology category for his project “Creation Wins!!!,” says he disproved part of the theory of evolution. Using a rolled-up paper towel suspended between two glasses of water with Epsom Salts, the paper towel formed stalactites. He states that the theory that they take millions of years to develop is incorrect. “Scientists say it takes millions of years to form stalactites,” Benson said. “However, in only a couple of hours, I have formed stalactites just by using paper towel and Epsom Salts.”

I just shed a tear for our future.

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Originally posted by PsychoPawn
Another kick in the pants for US science education:

http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/05/7th_grade_scien.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1841220/posts

Brian Benson, an eighth-grade student who won first place in the Life Science/Biology category for his project “Creation Wins!!!,” says he disproved part of the theory of e ...[text shortened]... talactites just by using paper towel and Epsom Salts.”

I just shed a tear for our future.
omg. How could such a project be accepted for real science? Never mind, I got it.

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Originally posted by PsychoPawn
Another kick in the pants for US science education:

http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/05/7th_grade_scien.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1841220/posts

Brian Benson, an eighth-grade student who won first place in the Life Science/Biology category for his project “Creation Wins!!!,” says he disproved part of the theory of e ...[text shortened]... talactites just by using paper towel and Epsom Salts.”

I just shed a tear for our future.
Damn. I feel so stupid.
How could I ever have believed in dinosaurs?

Giant flying lizards... I'm surely bound for hell.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
Damn. I feel so stupid.
How could I ever have believed in dinosaurs?

Giant flying lizards... I'm surely bound for hell.
Thou shalt be danged in hell where you burn and burn all over for ever and ever for your blasphomounsterous beliefs in such nonesense as evolution.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Thou shalt be danged in hell where you burn and burn all over for ever and ever for your blasphomounsterous beliefs in such nonesense as evolution.
Now that wasn't controversial. Dinosaurs? Yeah, right.

Beware the devil.

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Originally posted by kbaumen
Now that wasn't controversial. Dinosaurs? Yeah, right.

Beware the devil.
That too...Hey wait a minute, if God is dead, what about THAT dude?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
That too...Hey wait a minute, if God is dead, what about THAT dude?
Thou shalt not take this to religion forum spanky.