. . . or perhaps just your garden-variety pwnage. Quadrant editor and right-wing culture-warrior Keith Windschuttle has Sokal on his face.
Via Larvatus Prodeo
Warning: this textbook contains science, and may not be suitable for cognitively immature audiences
17 06 2008Textbook disclaimer stickers from the biology department at Swarthmore College:
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Categories : Critical thinking, Education, Humour, Magical Thinking, Religion, science
Your taxes, hard at work . . .
1 06 2008. . . funding the teaching of pseudoscience at Sydney’s Pacific Hills Christian School, where, according to Friendly Atheist,
students were being taught the following spectrum of beliefs in regards to evolution:
Somehow, this teacher places Intelligent Design to the right of Theistic Evolutionist. That makes sense…
More at Open Parachute and Maralyn Parker. I’m not opposed in principle to federal funding of private schools: every dollar spent on the education of students is money well spent, as far as I’m concerned. But the emphasis in that previous sentence should be placed on education. I don’t support telling lies to schoolchildren at the taxpayer’s largess ($200,000 in the case of Pacific Hills, as of June 2007), thanks. If you want to lie for Jesus to your kids, do it with your own money.
And while you’re at it, fire that sad excuse for a teacher, whose lesson plan appears to have been inspired by this creationist website.
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Things they’d have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City
9 12 2007Given that I’ve had to reincarnate FPO in WordPress anyway, I’ve decided to revamp the Wonderful World of Magical Thinking series ever so slightly with a new title, “Things they’d have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City,” taken from Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Entries will still be categorised under the label “Magical Thinking,” and will still bring you the latest news, both depressing and amusing, in fundamentalism, irrationalism and dogmatism. Without further ado . . .
The week in fundie . . .
- Republican presidential candidate sums up his commitment to liberal democracy with a simple remark: “Freedom requires religion.” (CNN)
- Texas Education Authority director is forced to resign for her bias in favour of teaching science in the science classroom. (The Austin-American Statesman)
- Canadian secular humanist group Family of the Heart has a page of conference papers and presentations on Fundamentalism that is worth exploring.
- North Dakota middle school teacher shows her class the GodTube “Letter from Hell” in order to–get this–“show the effects of drunken driving.”(Via Pharyngula)
- Only the fundamentalist brain could have dreamed up this equation: Prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity = “homosexual indoctrination.”
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Tags: dogmatism, douglas adams, evolution, fundamentalism, homophobia, intelligent design, irrationalism, Magical Thinking, science, secularism, separation of church and state
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