More on COSMOS, and a little commentary:
I've personally encountered the impassioned defense of "creationism/intelligent design" and personal direct attacks on me as "I don't know science." Holding my ground, it turned out these particular individuals didn't know much at all.
My questions are simple:
1. What other country is addressing this "debate" of creationism/intelligent design"?
2. What other country has attempted to introduce this "debate" into their science classrooms and curriculum?
3. What other country has a tax-funded "Creation Museum" (apparently, in financial difficulty)?
4. Are the top countries in the O.E.C.D. results advancing this in their science classrooms?
5. If not, why are WE insisting on doing this?
The Founding Fathers were at most Deists and Free Thinkers that crafted a Constitution separating Church and State, despite David Barton's refuted obfuscations. Deity does not need "talebearers," and there are more noble pursuits: income disparity, gender equality and the reduction of violence towards women in society and the media; gang violence, imprisonment inequity, re-fighting the Civil War to our own detriment as corporations ship jobs overseas are good fields to till; science and politics are not.
We are inundated with sociopathic, manipulative shysters - that we tend to sadly elect because of insincere, memorized 3-point sermons on "family values" - encouraging all to chase chimeras and unicorns; dueling windmills as the republic crumbles.
Quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Huffington Post) regarding science and religion:
"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism."
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