You think that’s a problem?! Maybe Wuerker should look up what the Critical Pedagogy and Social and Economic Justice crowd on the Left is doing with science education.And, what’s with the “vouchers?”.Social and Economic Justice public schools make anything the Religious Right is doing look like a puny joke. The Left in education is disasterous on a national scale.
The research indicates that vast amounts of public money is going to schools that teach nonsense — there’s no better word for it — in place of science, using charter schools and vouchers, while taking away resources from core schools that teach kids that need it. Many of those schools are religious in nature. Before anyone accuses me of being antireligious or atheist, Catholic schools (which I attended for twelve years) teach real science, including evolution. So do many others. It’s those schools that, as Neil deGrasse Tyson put it, “use the Bible as a textbook.”I don’t want MY tax dollars going to fund a private church-run ignorance center, that will help cripple our ability to compete globally. If people want to pay for that, let them. Or let their churches pay for that.
Your new handle is amusing; you cannot preemptively claim to be correct enough for that statement. And, of course, “having an open mind” does not mean letting your brain fall out.
Hi Bruce:I presume the word you are referring to is the word “adduce,” both from the fact that it is the least common word I used, and from the way you phrased the question using “deduce,” which, of course, has the same root.I’m cool with anyone believing anything they want. But life is too short to chase down any and every chimera that is logically and/or physically possible, but for which there is no evidence, or (as in the case of creationism and Noah’s flood) much evidence that refutes the position. Once you start down that road you’ll end up investigating every paranormal claim, every religious vision, and every crackpot invention. In other words, I don’t have to take astrologers seriously until they start publishing in peer-reviewed journals.What I’m not cool with is people trying to evangelize their own psychological proclivities as if they were some sort of absolute truth, or their attempt to destroy science education in this country. You’ve seen a lot of them right here in the comments section at GoComics.Best Wishes.
Enoki about 10 years ago
You think that’s a problem?! Maybe Wuerker should look up what the Critical Pedagogy and Social and Economic Justice crowd on the Left is doing with science education.And, what’s with the “vouchers?”.Social and Economic Justice public schools make anything the Religious Right is doing look like a puny joke. The Left in education is disasterous on a national scale.
I Play One On TV about 10 years ago
Good ’toon, Mr. Wuerker. Well drawn, well considered.
Motivemagus about 10 years ago
The research indicates that vast amounts of public money is going to schools that teach nonsense — there’s no better word for it — in place of science, using charter schools and vouchers, while taking away resources from core schools that teach kids that need it. Many of those schools are religious in nature. Before anyone accuses me of being antireligious or atheist, Catholic schools (which I attended for twelve years) teach real science, including evolution. So do many others. It’s those schools that, as Neil deGrasse Tyson put it, “use the Bible as a textbook.”I don’t want MY tax dollars going to fund a private church-run ignorance center, that will help cripple our ability to compete globally. If people want to pay for that, let them. Or let their churches pay for that.
Crabbyrino Premium Member about 10 years ago
The unnamed ones would be “right-to-work prep” and “barefoot and pregnant prep”.
William Bednar Premium Member about 10 years ago
I thought that particular apple had rotted away long ago.
Motivemagus about 10 years ago
Your new handle is amusing; you cannot preemptively claim to be correct enough for that statement. And, of course, “having an open mind” does not mean letting your brain fall out.
markjoseph125 about 10 years ago
Hi Bruce:I presume the word you are referring to is the word “adduce,” both from the fact that it is the least common word I used, and from the way you phrased the question using “deduce,” which, of course, has the same root.I’m cool with anyone believing anything they want. But life is too short to chase down any and every chimera that is logically and/or physically possible, but for which there is no evidence, or (as in the case of creationism and Noah’s flood) much evidence that refutes the position. Once you start down that road you’ll end up investigating every paranormal claim, every religious vision, and every crackpot invention. In other words, I don’t have to take astrologers seriously until they start publishing in peer-reviewed journals.What I’m not cool with is people trying to evangelize their own psychological proclivities as if they were some sort of absolute truth, or their attempt to destroy science education in this country. You’ve seen a lot of them right here in the comments section at GoComics.Best Wishes.