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Jan 17, 2009 17:55

Whales Had Legs Until 40 Million Years Ago, Fossils Show

Flinders Ranges may contain earliest multicellular fossils. (Here's an eight-armed example.)

Monitoring of creation studies left to schools: "Christian schools in NSW are teaching creationism or "intelligent design" with little or no monitoring of whether it is being improperly included in ( Read more... )

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nyssa_p January 17 2009, 08:01:30 UTC

I think creationism should be left to just religious subjects, like Studies of Religion for the HSC (even that still had it's bias').

At my catholic high school, religion before the HSC was boring as. Of course they only taught catholicism, but it was so simple even a pagan could get at least a distinction (*cough* that's me!). Also it was really repetitive.

I upset the teachers a fair few times - that was the fun part :P I think at least most of us have amusing memories of upsetting zealots. Anyone remember rumours of Pope Joan?

ajponder January 17 2009, 12:47:49 UTC

RE classes. Isn't that why books were invented? Baiting our RE teacher was like catching fish with dynamite. Heck I can't even remember what denomination my school was - and I topped the class.

Octopi faeriefyre January 17 2009, 08:08:16 UTC

Dammit.

I can't eat 'em now. Not when they're THAT intelligent...

*geez*

*sighs over the many delicious Octopi meals I've had before and will never have again!*

Re: Octopi kateorman January 17 2009, 08:14:59 UTC

Yeah, I'm the same! Hooray for fish being dumb. Fish are fast-moving vegetables.

ICON LOVE!! faeriefyre January 17 2009, 09:37:58 UTC

ICON LOVE!!

ICON LOVE!!

ICON LOVE!!

Dumb fish... faeriefyre January 17 2009, 09:39:12 UTC

Which brings me to my second point.

PETA suck... bunch of freaks...

http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/

ajponder January 17 2009, 12:33:47 UTC

Intelligent design should be taught in all schools -- just like Lamarkianism -- it's a great way to show exactly how robust the theory of evolution is.
On a more serious note - those schools cater for a market. We can say how terrible it is that students are learning something so absurd, something that quite patently does not fit the evidence, but so long as state schools don't go down the same track - I don't believe it's the state's business to interfere.

mrteufel January 17 2009, 14:52:40 UTC

I wonder how many repetitions she tried? If octopodes are that smart, maybe they're trying something different each time to see if it changes the result?

kateorman January 18 2009, 00:31:44 UTC

That reminds me of the cartoon of two mice sitting in a maze, discussing how they've trained the scientist to give them a piece of cheese.