Congressman Paul Broun (R Georgia) is on The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. He made commentary apparently at a church congregation aired on MSNBC for his views expressed: he believes evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, are all "lies straight from the pit of Hell."
Exquisitely timed, a French-American team Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland shared the Nobel Prize announced today: "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
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I've discussed modeling before, doing [as an educator] what you want children to perform in class. For mathematics and physics, it means doing a lot of examples on the overhead, use of physical manipulatives, letting kids "see" you do the problem, come up with the answer and give explanation to the steps involved. See-hear-touch.
I only have five questions for the erstwhile congressman:
Since the Constitution stipulates no religious tests, what exactly with a degree in medicine were you espousing?
Since the free trade "Genie" is out of the bottle, how will this religiosity make kids - our future workers - competitive in the global market? (China, that godless communist government - is kicking our collective assets!)
I don't doubt you studied epidemiology and physics in pursuit of your degree, which in turn exposed you to the Theory of Evolution and the Big Bang Theory. What were your final grades in said classes and did you know then that you were taking science coursework outlined by Beelzebub?
Do "quantum systems" fall under this new rubric?
Were you really trying to piss off Bill Nye The Science Guy?
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Lastly, with an English accent:
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