Alabama will require students to learn about evolution, climate change

[chikenwing]

If the students can truly grasp evolution, it will become apparent that climate change is a fraud. Looks like a win-win, if taught properly.

They should also be forced to take probability and statistics too.
Might help them understand better the chances of evolution being a reality in the first place.

Look out boys and girls, we have someone who denies evolution on the board.. Talk about stupidity.

actually, I didn't deny anything. I only pointed out that along with the theory, the mathematics should be included.
however if you see an issue with the chances, maybe you are denying evolution?

Interesting ,I would like to see the math,1 life forms,then survives,and learns how to reproduce,befor its life ends,

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Alabama is growing up..
Alabama will require students to learn about evolution, climate change

Alabama is updating its decade-old science standards to require that students understand evolution and learn about climate change, topics that can still be controversial in the Bible Belt state.

Educators say the new rules — part of a major change that includes more experimentation and hands-on instruction and less lecturing — don't require that students believe in evolution or accept the idea that climate is changing globally.

But public school students will be required for the first time to understand the theory of evolution. And teachers will be required to address climate change, which wasn't a focus the last time the state set science standards in 2005.

The new standards take effect in 2016 after being unanimously approved by the Republican-controlled Alabama State Board of Education on Thursday.

No one spoke against the new standards when they were discussed at a board meeting in August, but supporters praised them as a step forward for the state.

A 40-member committee that developed the new course of study included people with "very strong religious beliefs" who considered the state's faith traditions and worked together to develop the new guidelines, said Michal Robinson, science specialist for the state education agency.

"We still have to teach what the science is," Robinson said in an interview Friday. "If students want to go into a science field in college or beyond, they have to have a foundation."

The current state standard says students "should understand the nature of evolutionary theories," but such knowledge isn't required.

Oh goody... the busy-body left imposing its morality once again.

 

[David_42]

Alabama is growing up..
Alabama will require students to learn about evolution, climate change

Alabama is updating its decade-old science standards to require that students understand evolution and learn about climate change, topics that can still be controversial in the Bible Belt state.

Educators say the new rules — part of a major change that includes more experimentation and hands-on instruction and less lecturing — don't require that students believe in evolution or accept the idea that climate is changing globally.

But public school students will be required for the first time to understand the theory of evolution. And teachers will be required to address climate change, which wasn't a focus the last time the state set science standards in 2005.

The new standards take effect in 2016 after being unanimously approved by the Republican-controlled Alabama State Board of Education on Thursday.

No one spoke against the new standards when they were discussed at a board meeting in August, but supporters praised them as a step forward for the state.

A 40-member committee that developed the new course of study included people with "very strong religious beliefs" who considered the state's faith traditions and worked together to develop the new guidelines, said Michal Robinson, science specialist for the state education agency.

"We still have to teach what the science is," Robinson said in an interview Friday. "If students want to go into a science field in college or beyond, they have to have a foundation."

The current state standard says students "should understand the nature of evolutionary theories," but such knowledge isn't required.

Oh goody... the busy-body left imposing its morality once again.

LOL. Teaching science is imposing morality?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"The current state standard says students "should understand the nature of evolutionary theories," but such knowledge isn't required."

“Knowledge isn't required” - the credo of most conservatives.

 

[whitehall]

Freaking SAT scores are down ten points on average and the clown faces are worried about Alabama. No surprises here.

 

[David_42]

Freaking SAT scores are down ten points on average and the clown faces are worried about Alabama. No surprises here.

The ****? Sorry that I want alabama students to be educated in basic science.

 

[JakeStarkey]

If the students can truly grasp evolution, it will become apparent that climate change is a fraud. Looks like a win-win, if taught properly.

Obviously you don't understand either.

Run along and find a baby dinosaur to cuddle.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Alabama is growing up..
Alabama will require students to learn about evolution, climate change

Alabama is updating its decade-old science standards to require that students understand evolution and learn about climate change, topics that can still be controversial in the Bible Belt state.

Educators say the new rules — part of a major change that includes more experimentation and hands-on instruction and less lecturing — don't require that students believe in evolution or accept the idea that climate is changing globally.

But public school students will be required for the first time to understand the theory of evolution. And teachers will be required to address climate change, which wasn't a focus the last time the state set science standards in 2005.

The new standards take effect in 2016 after being unanimously approved by the Republican-controlled Alabama State Board of Education on Thursday.

No one spoke against the new standards when they were discussed at a board meeting in August, but supporters praised them as a step forward for the state.

A 40-member committee that developed the new course of study included people with "very strong religious beliefs" who considered the state's faith traditions and worked together to develop the new guidelines, said Michal Robinson, science specialist for the state education agency.

"We still have to teach what the science is," Robinson said in an interview Friday. "If students want to go into a science field in college or beyond, they have to have a foundation."

The current state standard says students "should understand the nature of evolutionary theories," but such knowledge isn't required.

I mean you have to stop a second and ask, "what year is this?". The Scopes trial was in 1925, almost 100 years ago and states in the south are still frozen in time. At this point there is so much evidence for both evolution and global warming there is no argument at all except in the minds of people who still need to believe in magic.

"The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school."

Reality has to creep into every mind at some point. You would think so anyway, but these people find a way to forcefully and angrily keep reality at bay.

Bizarro world.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Alabama is growing up..
Alabama will require students to learn about evolution, climate change

Alabama is updating its decade-old science standards to require that students understand evolution and learn about climate change, topics that can still be controversial in the Bible Belt state.

Educators say the new rules — part of a major change that includes more experimentation and hands-on instruction and less lecturing — don't require that students believe in evolution or accept the idea that climate is changing globally.

But public school students will be required for the first time to understand the theory of evolution. And teachers will be required to address climate change, which wasn't a focus the last time the state set science standards in 2005.

The new standards take effect in 2016 after being unanimously approved by the Republican-controlled Alabama State Board of Education on Thursday.

No one spoke against the new standards when they were discussed at a board meeting in August, but supporters praised them as a step forward for the state.

A 40-member committee that developed the new course of study included people with "very strong religious beliefs" who considered the state's faith traditions and worked together to develop the new guidelines, said Michal Robinson, science specialist for the state education agency.

"We still have to teach what the science is," Robinson said in an interview Friday. "If students want to go into a science field in college or beyond, they have to have a foundation."

The current state standard says students "should understand the nature of evolutionary theories," but such knowledge isn't required.

Oh goody... the busy-body left imposing its morality once again.

Science is morality now? You guys are truly fucked up.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Alabama is growing up..
Alabama will require students to learn about evolution, climate change

Alabama is updating its decade-old science standards to require that students understand evolution and learn about climate change, topics that can still be controversial in the Bible Belt state.

Educators say the new rules — part of a major change that includes more experimentation and hands-on instruction and less lecturing — don't require that students believe in evolution or accept the idea that climate is changing globally.

But public school students will be required for the first time to understand the theory of evolution. And teachers will be required to address climate change, which wasn't a focus the last time the state set science standards in 2005.

The new standards take effect in 2016 after being unanimously approved by the Republican-controlled Alabama State Board of Education on Thursday.

No one spoke against the new standards when they were discussed at a board meeting in August, but supporters praised them as a step forward for the state.

A 40-member committee that developed the new course of study included people with "very strong religious beliefs" who considered the state's faith traditions and worked together to develop the new guidelines, said Michal Robinson, science specialist for the state education agency.

"We still have to teach what the science is," Robinson said in an interview Friday. "If students want to go into a science field in college or beyond, they have to have a foundation."

The current state standard says students "should understand the nature of evolutionary theories," but such knowledge isn't required.

I mean you have to stop a second and ask, "what year is this?". The Scopes trial was in 1925, almost 100 years ago and states in the south are still frozen in time. At this point there is so much evidence for both evolution and global warming there is no argument at all except in the minds of people who still need to believe in magic.

"The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school."

Reality has to creep into every mind at some point. You would think so anyway, but these people find a way to forcefully and angrily keep reality at bay.

Bizarro world.

The true **** ups are those who think religion and science are mutually exclusive.

 

[whitehall]

Freaking SAT scores are down ten points on average and the clown faces are worried about Alabama. No surprises here.

The ****? Sorry that I want alabama students to be educated in basic science.

The SAT scores indicate that math and writing ability scores are down nation wide and the clown faced bigots worry about the "Bible Belt" teaching evolution? They have always taught evolution in Alabama schools.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Alabama is growing up..
Alabama will require students to learn about evolution, climate change

Alabama is updating its decade-old science standards to require that students understand evolution and learn about climate change, topics that can still be controversial in the Bible Belt state.

Educators say the new rules — part of a major change that includes more experimentation and hands-on instruction and less lecturing — don't require that students believe in evolution or accept the idea that climate is changing globally.

But public school students will be required for the first time to understand the theory of evolution. And teachers will be required to address climate change, which wasn't a focus the last time the state set science standards in 2005.

The new standards take effect in 2016 after being unanimously approved by the Republican-controlled Alabama State Board of Education on Thursday.

No one spoke against the new standards when they were discussed at a board meeting in August, but supporters praised them as a step forward for the state.

A 40-member committee that developed the new course of study included people with "very strong religious beliefs" who considered the state's faith traditions and worked together to develop the new guidelines, said Michal Robinson, science specialist for the state education agency.

"We still have to teach what the science is," Robinson said in an interview Friday. "If students want to go into a science field in college or beyond, they have to have a foundation."

The current state standard says students "should understand the nature of evolutionary theories," but such knowledge isn't required.

I mean you have to stop a second and ask, "what year is this?". The Scopes trial was in 1925, almost 100 years ago and states in the south are still frozen in time. At this point there is so much evidence for both evolution and global warming there is no argument at all except in the minds of people who still need to believe in magic.

"The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school."

Reality has to creep into every mind at some point. You would think so anyway, but these people find a way to forcefully and angrily keep reality at bay.

Bizarro world.

The true **** ups are those who think religion and science are mutually exclusive.

They are absolutely mutually exclusive.

Religion is the belief in a super-natural all powerful being that uses magic. God, Zeus, the Kraken, the Spaghetti Monster...

Science is reality revealed through repeatable experiments. The elements, physics, biology, paleontology, calculus, chemistry...

 

[David_42]

Alabama is growing up..
Alabama will require students to learn about evolution, climate change

Alabama is updating its decade-old science standards to require that students understand evolution and learn about climate change, topics that can still be controversial in the Bible Belt state.

Educators say the new rules — part of a major change that includes more experimentation and hands-on instruction and less lecturing — don't require that students believe in evolution or accept the idea that climate is changing globally.

But public school students will be required for the first time to understand the theory of evolution. And teachers will be required to address climate change, which wasn't a focus the last time the state set science standards in 2005.

The new standards take effect in 2016 after being unanimously approved by the Republican-controlled Alabama State Board of Education on Thursday.

No one spoke against the new standards when they were discussed at a board meeting in August, but supporters praised them as a step forward for the state.

A 40-member committee that developed the new course of study included people with "very strong religious beliefs" who considered the state's faith traditions and worked together to develop the new guidelines, said Michal Robinson, science specialist for the state education agency.

"We still have to teach what the science is," Robinson said in an interview Friday. "If students want to go into a science field in college or beyond, they have to have a foundation."

The current state standard says students "should understand the nature of evolutionary theories," but such knowledge isn't required.

I mean you have to stop a second and ask, "what year is this?". The Scopes trial was in 1925, almost 100 years ago and states in the south are still frozen in time. At this point there is so much evidence for both evolution and global warming there is no argument at all except in the minds of people who still need to believe in magic.

"The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school."

Reality has to creep into every mind at some point. You would think so anyway, but these people find a way to forcefully and angrily keep reality at bay.

Bizarro world.

The true **** ups are those who think religion and science are mutually exclusive.

They are absolutely mutually exclusive.

Religion is the belief in a super-natural all powerful being that uses magic. God, Zeus, the Kraken, the Spaghetti Monster...

Science is reality revealed through repeatable experiments. The elements, physics, biology, paleontology, calculus, chemistry...

I love this!

 

[JakeStarkey]

"They are absolutely mutually exclusive" is the third silliest statement of the day."

Many theists are comfortable with being scientists. When you get to the other side ask Bacon, Darwin, Newton, and others about your error.

 

[IsaacNewton]

"They are absolutely mutually exclusive" is the third silliest statement of the day."

Many theists are comfortable with being scientists. When you get to the other side ask Bacon, Darwin, Newton, and others about your error.

Yeah, there are a lot of intelligent people who believe in a god. Its one of the odd conundrums of the human mind. Dr. Ben Carson who is running for president and is a neurosurgeon thinks the world is 6,000 years old.

And the older scientists, previous to say 150 years ago, who claimed belief in god likely did so because to go against the church back then was heresy and could lead to prison.

Ask any scientist that believes in a god where the proof is and he has none. Ask him where the proof for evolution and global warming are and there are mountains of it.

Show proof of any god and I will be on board. There isn't any.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

"They are absolutely mutually exclusive" is the third silliest statement of the day."

Many theists are comfortable with being scientists. When you get to the other side ask Bacon, Darwin, Newton, and others about your error.

Yeah, there are a lot of intelligent people who believe in a god. Its one of the odd conundrums of the human mind. Dr. Ben Carson who is running for president and is a neurosurgeon thinks the world is 6,000 years old.

And the older scientists, previous to say 150 years ago, who claimed belief in god likely did so because to go against the church back then was heresy and could lead to prison.

Ask any scientist that believes in a god where the proof is and he has none. Ask him where the proof for evolution and global warming are and there are mountains of it.

Show proof of any god and I will be on board. There isn't any.

show proof that something can be created from nothing. as in, the universe. lots of faith in that one.

 

[2aguy]

Climate change.....the world heats up, the world cools....there...you have your 4 credits.


No need to go to that school anymore.....

 

[IsaacNewton]

"They are absolutely mutually exclusive" is the third silliest statement of the day."

Many theists are comfortable with being scientists. When you get to the other side ask Bacon, Darwin, Newton, and others about your error.

Yeah, there are a lot of intelligent people who believe in a god. Its one of the odd conundrums of the human mind. Dr. Ben Carson who is running for president and is a neurosurgeon thinks the world is 6,000 years old.

And the older scientists, previous to say 150 years ago, who claimed belief in god likely did so because to go against the church back then was heresy and could lead to prison.

Ask any scientist that believes in a god where the proof is and he has none. Ask him where the proof for evolution and global warming are and there are mountains of it.

Show proof of any god and I will be on board. There isn't any.

show proof that something can be created from nothing. as in, the universe. lots of faith in that one.

Soooo...in your mind, if there is not an answer for everything yet, there is an answer for nothing.

If you only have 1 million fossils, and not 1 million and one, then you have proven nothing.

LOL, ok go with that.

 

[Political Junky]

There's hope for Alabama. Now if the other southern states follow suit.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Now, if they could only get Texas to follow suit and listen to facts.