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From: Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off>
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Subject: Re: West Virginia creationism
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 10:23:11 -0700
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:51:17 -0500, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by RonO <rokimoto@cox.net>:

>https://www.science.org/content/article/west-virginia-opens-door-teaching-intelligent-design
>
>Last year this boob tried to slip in teaching intelligent design by 
>adding one sentence to a decades old act to allow teaching intelligent 
>design in the public schools.  The bill didn't make it to the governor. 
>This year she took out the words "intelligent design" but admits that 
>intelligent design could be taught using her legislation.  It is sort of 
>like Louisiana not stating what they wanted to teach about scientific 
>creationism.  The Supreme court ruled that even though the dishonest 
>legislators tried to slip it through, there was little doubt about what 
>they wanted to teach.  If the governor signs this bill we will see how 
>it gets interpreted.
>
Obviously, all of those listed in the section "Monotheism"
in this article...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creator_deity

....as well as those shown in this one...

https://medium.com/@mythopia/twelve-creator-gods-abridged-article-c32c5ae26930

....will have to be included, as will multiple others, most
not part of monotheism (Creation can be a "team effort",
after all...). Inclusion and equity, y'know...
>
>This again is testing the ID perp's "not required" to be taught scam. 
>They are not requiring ID to be taught, they are even lying about 
>wanting to teach it, so we will see how it goes if some stupid, ignorant 
>and likely dishonest teacher wants to use it to support their religious 
>beliefs in the science class.  Really, how honest could a teacher be at 
>this point after decades of the ID scam bait and switch going down on 
>any hapless rubes that have wanted to teach the lame junk in the public 
>schools.  No school board or legislator that has wanted to teach ID in 
>the public schools has ever gotten any ID science to teach from the ID 
>perps at the Discovery Institute.  There has never been a public school 
>lesson plan put out for evaluation, and the Discovery Institute used to 
>claim that Of Pandas and People could be used as a text to teach the 
>junk, but that ended after the name change from creationism to ID was 
>exposed in Kitzmiller.
>
>I went to the ID scam unit web site at the Discovery Institute and it 
>looks like they did not refill the staff position that they had for the 
>person that was responsible for running the bait and switch on hapless 
>rubes that wanted to teach ID in the public schools.  She left after 
>running  the bait and switch on the Utah rubes back in 2017.  It looks 
>like Oklahoma and West Virginia have been missed.  My guess is that the 
>ID perps needed to save money and didn't think that they needed someone 
>to track the rubes and make sure that the bait and switch went down.  It 
>looks like they were wrong.  As crazy as it may seem there are still 
>creationist rubes that want to teach the junk when the bait and switch 
>has been going down for over 2 decades, and no one has ever gotten any 
>ID science to teach.  All anyone has ever gotten is an obfuscation and 
>denial switch scam that the creationists do not like because they do not 
>want to teach their kids enough science for them to understand what they 
>have to deny.
>
>Ron Okimoto
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Bob C.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
 the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

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