Reality Be Damned, Texas Board of Education Votes On Age Of Universe

By Thursday May 7, 2009

Kids, if they teach it in school, it has to be true.

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  1. Toxic Asshead says:
    5/8/2009 at 4:45 am

    #121 – Yeah me and thousands of others…who happen to be real climatologists, physicists, and atmospheric scientists rather than ex-politician gasbags with an agenda.

    If the greenies could propose a single solution to anything that didn’t actively harm America, I could at least roll my eyes and play along.

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  2. Free thinker says:
    5/8/2009 at 5:04 am

    Stupid Texan politicians, wasting time and tax payers money to decide the age of the earth…

    #20, Well said. But I’ll reinforce my children education at home, teaching them the fact of evolution and that the science has real proofs about evolution, earth age and, of couse, the non existance of god.

    Creatonists, you can keep saying I’ll burn for blablabla, I DON’T CARE!!!

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  3. Thomas says:
    5/8/2009 at 7:48 am

    #135
    Of the Cowboys, Rangers, Mavericks and Spurs, and as much as it pains me to say this, the Cowboys probably pull in more than the other three combined. A high school women’s lacrosse team pulls in more than the Rangers. Baseball is dying so let the Texans have the Rangers. Therefore, if we had to choose, (much as I hate the Cowboys), the best choices would be the Cowboys, Spurs, Texans and Mavericks in that order. Course that still leaves a bunch great college football teams (which probably also pull in more than the Rangers) and that would be a loss.

    All kidding aside, Texas is quite a nice place. But like all states, they have their collection of loons and much like CA, they elect them.

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  4. Canuck47 says:
    5/8/2009 at 7:56 am

    Don’t they understand the Bible was written by J.K. Rowling. Although some contend the Old Testament was written by Jules Verne.

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  5. Olo Baggins of Bywater says:
    5/8/2009 at 8:08 am

    Thomas…Ryan has to sell the Rangers to get them out, and that will make them better.

    How much is Texas really like King of the Hill?

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  6. grog says:
    5/8/2009 at 9:38 am

    just as soon as the Christians start teaching that their god is only a theory and that it’s entirely possible that Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are actually responsible for all creation, then i will take seriously their claims that they are interested in seeing more than one side of an issue.

    until then, they are just pushing one-sided religious dogma in my face.

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  7. Misanthropic Scott says:
    5/8/2009 at 10:40 am

    #146 – grog,

    Nice slam dunk you’ve got there!

    How about leaving a few copies of The Origin of the Species around in every church. They should want to be aware of that viewpoint as well, right?

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  8. LibertyLover says:
    5/8/2009 at 12:46 pm

    #146. That is fantastic! I’m stealing that from you.

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  9. bobbo says:
    5/8/2009 at 2:01 pm

    Not only is there no right menu posting history but the search function in Firefox 3.0 doesn’t work on this site, so:

    Sea Lawyer said above he thought this universe was just one “interation” of a cycle of bang and collapse.

    It came to me that “the evidence” is that our universe is accelerating its expansion and will “never” collapse. That being our “best” explanation, the thought occurred to me that “assuming” we aren’t uniquely THE FIRST UNIVERSE EVER that as a matter of probability, or maybe even cause and effect??, the universe takes a bunch of time to expand and expand to the point where it is all just cold and dead matter continuing to expand forever and from any one speck of matter, it would appear to a sophisticated observer that that little speck of matter was the only thing in the universe. Then, somewhere, there is another creation event in the “real” universe, another big bang, and the process is ever CONTINUING–a constantly repeating wave upon wave of creation lost in the immensity of infinity.

    I tells ya, its the only thing that makes sense. Either that, or some other theory but I like the boundlessness of mine.

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  10. Misanthropic Scott says:
    5/8/2009 at 5:36 pm

    #149 – bobbo,

    I did not say that there are no other universes, though there is no evidence to support the hypothesis, as yet. So, until there is, there is no reason to believe in more universes.

    What I did say is that this universe will not contract back on itself and thus will not recreate the next one from the stuff of this one.

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  11. deowll says:
    5/8/2009 at 7:38 pm

    Reminds me of a Jerry Clowers story about a good old boy that got elected to state office and wanted to move January to the middle of the summer to give folks a break from hot weather and a chance to kill hogs in the middle of the summer.

    Some things have already been voted on and people weren’t allowed to vote.

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  12. Mr. Fusion says:
    5/9/2009 at 6:23 am

    #150, Scott,

    … this universe will not contract back on itself and thus will not recreate the next one from the stuff of this one.

    Hhmmm, well all I can say is never say never. Our understanding of the universe has only started. I personally don’t think that all the characteristics and properties we can see and apply on our own little rock will necessarily apply. BUT, I admit I am far from a specialist in this matter.

    But as his noodlyness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster would say, . . .

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  13. Greg Allen says:
    5/9/2009 at 6:58 am

    I’m in education, now, and it drives teachers crazy that Texas sets the standards for nationwide textbooks.

    But they are big and insanely stubborn, so the publishers give-in to them.

    The solution is for a coalition of states, twice as large as Texas, to set their own high standard and be every bit as stubborn as Texas.

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  14. Paddy-O says:
    5/9/2009 at 7:11 am

    The point is, NO ONE knows. Whatever is taught is pretty much guaranteed to be false unless there is a big disclaimer that it is all a guess.

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  15. Mr. Fusion says:
    5/9/2009 at 7:18 am

    #153, Greg Allen

    You mean like California and New York?

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  16. Misanthropic Scott says:
    5/9/2009 at 7:43 am

    #154 – Paddy-O,

    The point is, NO ONE knows. Whatever is taught is pretty much guaranteed to be false unless there is a big disclaimer that it is all a guess.

    Sue your school district for failure to provide you a basic education in what science is. You are unable to tell the difference, which is surprising since you have some slight knowledge of technology and engineering with no idea how it came to be.

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  17. rick cain says:
    5/9/2009 at 11:06 am

    Satan planted funny skulls and wierd bones into the earth to trick believers.

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