If you aren't too sharp, it's better not to fake it. Probably won't come out right. Sometimes... To unwind... I like to curl up by a fire and burn a good book.
fritzoid - For your information, the infamous KS School Board didn’t want books burned (or even banned). The liberal media distorted the facts - again.
Oh, that’s right. It was a parent’s group that held a book burning of “Annie On My Mind” in 1993, and the Olathe District school superintendent who had the book removed from all the schools in the District.
It’s the Kansas Board of Education which in 2005 adopted a teaching guideline to “Provide a definition of science that does not preclude supernatural explanations.”
Since I’m not near Olathe, I’m not familar with that particular situation.
However, the 2005 policy was NOT a matter of banning any books, basically, it was stating that science which limits itself to only naturalistic explanations is biased against those who believe in a divine creator. My district’s KS board member during that time happens to be a doctor of veterinary, and for that particular policy. A veterinarian who has earned a doctorate has studied enough science to comprehend the various views.
Rmom, veterinary science which includes nonnaturalistic diagnosis and treatment isn’t veterinary science, it’s faith healing. If your veterinarian is making decisions for others on questions of physics or cosmology, he’s exceeding his areas of expertise. Actual working physicists, astronomers, and geologists overwhelmingly reject any sort of “Intelligent Design” at the foundations of the physical world.
If you include supernatural explanations for physical phenomena in your course of study, you aren’t teaching science, you’re teaching religion/theology. That was the basis of the argument by which the Kansas guidelines were ruled against by the Supreme Court.
The Kansas protocols were designed to sneak superstition and magical thinking into the classrooms by “teaching the controversy” rather than teaching the science. Doing so isn’t science at all, it’s Social Studies.
It’s true; the teaching of science and the scientific method is biased against the superstitious, and if the schools don’t make an attempt to graduate young people who’ve abandoned superstition, they are doing a disservice to the common interest.
Coyoty, he’d heard that “burning CDs” is a cheap way to enlarge a music collection, but he still hadn’t made the switch from vinyl.
ronaldmundy almost 15 years ago
better to keep your mouth shut and appear clueless then to open it and prove it.
Ooops! Premium Member almost 15 years ago
I prefer to burn bad books. Now, he’d really be in trouble if he said he liked to burn THE good book.
eardroppings almost 15 years ago
Who is this, Hitler?
bald almost 15 years ago
i do too, but only if the book is not good.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
…or a Kansas School Board member?
Smiley Rmom almost 15 years ago
fritzoid - For your information, the infamous KS School Board didn’t want books burned (or even banned). The liberal media distorted the facts - again.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Oh, that’s right. It was a parent’s group that held a book burning of “Annie On My Mind” in 1993, and the Olathe District school superintendent who had the book removed from all the schools in the District.
It’s the Kansas Board of Education which in 2005 adopted a teaching guideline to “Provide a definition of science that does not preclude supernatural explanations.”
Smiley Rmom almost 15 years ago
Since I’m not near Olathe, I’m not familar with that particular situation. However, the 2005 policy was NOT a matter of banning any books, basically, it was stating that science which limits itself to only naturalistic explanations is biased against those who believe in a divine creator. My district’s KS board member during that time happens to be a doctor of veterinary, and for that particular policy. A veterinarian who has earned a doctorate has studied enough science to comprehend the various views.
Coyoty Premium Member almost 15 years ago
He also likes to put on a good record and listen to it, even if it crackles.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Rmom, veterinary science which includes nonnaturalistic diagnosis and treatment isn’t veterinary science, it’s faith healing. If your veterinarian is making decisions for others on questions of physics or cosmology, he’s exceeding his areas of expertise. Actual working physicists, astronomers, and geologists overwhelmingly reject any sort of “Intelligent Design” at the foundations of the physical world.
If you include supernatural explanations for physical phenomena in your course of study, you aren’t teaching science, you’re teaching religion/theology. That was the basis of the argument by which the Kansas guidelines were ruled against by the Supreme Court.
The Kansas protocols were designed to sneak superstition and magical thinking into the classrooms by “teaching the controversy” rather than teaching the science. Doing so isn’t science at all, it’s Social Studies.
It’s true; the teaching of science and the scientific method is biased against the superstitious, and if the schools don’t make an attempt to graduate young people who’ve abandoned superstition, they are doing a disservice to the common interest.
Coyoty, he’d heard that “burning CDs” is a cheap way to enlarge a music collection, but he still hadn’t made the switch from vinyl.