How did you know I kill puppies? My secret is out! If the guy is legit, he can get another sub job... Sub 'firings' are hardly universal and all it appears is he was 'off the list' for that school. If you are competent you will succeed.
I love loopholes. Its the American way! On subject: At least he has his mad toothpick vanishing skills to fall back on.
He probably made a bet with another teacher to see who can get fired the quickest. Now they're both at a bar making beers disappear soo, what you do to get fired? "I showed them a tranny porno, in sex ed to confuse them a bit, what about you? "i pretended to be a wizard lmfao "
This is the only reason I even give a damn about this response... it's the closest thing to an actual explanation you give. If they just happened to be ready to fire him that same day before this happened, I could see it... and that's the ONLY way it would make any sense. If he's such a f*ck-up, you don't wait until he pulls a magic trick, then say "okay, that was the last straw..." That's my opinion.
The school district in question "won" the Silver in Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" segment tonight. The video isn't up yet, but I imagine it will be soon.
Glancing through the site... you might wanna check somewhere else for facts, then. All of their arguments that I read boiled down to the same old "CONSENSUS!" BS or the old "attack the person, not the statement" fallacy. Granted, I have not seen the movie myself. I live in a college town, and can't find any theater anywhere around here that plays it, yet other documentaries with similar budgets always make an appearance in the local theaters. Heck, Fahrenheit 9/11 was advertised the beejeezus out of here. That tells me all I need to know.
1. Consensus is how science works. Someone comes up with a new theory, other people test the theory. If the theory holds up and the results can be reproduced consistently, then it's probably a winner. 2. I checked over the website and I couldn't find any ad hominem fallacies.
Ideally, yes. But for one reason or another-- often political, but not always-- that's pretty much never been the case. In fact, from what I've heard Ben Stein's documentary doesn't even really take a definitive position like "Intelligent design right, evolution wrong". It just talks about how universities and the scientific community are blacklisting anything having to deal with intelligent design. And Lord knows that's how my college is. They say they encourage "free speech", but they don't really mean it. They just let you agree with them to varying degrees.
If someone is honestly lecturing that "Intelligent Design" is a valid scientific theory in a biology (or similar) lecture then they are incompetent and should be blacklisted. Sure it can be discussed and so forth but lectures are not supposed to be someone's soapbox time.
Exactly. The problem with "intelligent design" is that it can't be tested scientifically. You can't apply the scientific method to the supernatural. And as the website I referenced points out, many belief systems are totally compatible with science and evolution. The Roman Catholic Church does not deny or argue against evolution, for example. For my part, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is totally cool with evolution and the scientific method - but then, our prophet is a physicist by training.
This, unfortunately, is something that few people really seem to get. Things have been interpreted literally by the wrong people and then people with uncool agendas have turned a science debate (well, there's not really any debate, it's more like misinformation) into religion vs atheism when that's totally not what it is. It's all a great big mess and there really shouldn't be any controversy or confusion.
Last time I checked, Intelligent design teaches evolution as the process. Any time people pretend to know what is going on in science and know it all so no one needs to have an opinion, it scares me. I am pretty sure they had consensus back when the earth was flat and the center of the universe too.
The problem is that it doesn't. I've found it very hard to actually find exactly what they teach, but my understanding is that an intelligent creator waved his wand and *bam* a fully formed fish with fins and gills appeared out of nowhere. Then *bam* and there were mammals.
im thinking, id rather hear first from the dude who majored in science related field rather than the guy on the sidewalk whos well read. theres a reason they make the distinction between popular science and the real one, whos findings are published in esoteric journals and by the time they reach popular media, some have already been debunked.