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The original Carl Sagan Cosmos was soo much better than the Neil DeGrasse Tyson remake. Even if Ann Druyan, Sagan’s wife, was a writer on both productions.
Hahaha. I got kicked out of the “computer class” (a single TRS-80) for daring to ask my “science” teacher ’bout “all dem dinosaurs” (I grew up in the backwoods of Ocala)
I am a Christian, attended a Christian primary and secondary school, in both we had regular science classes that taught evolution and had debate specifically about evolution vs creationism, and evolution side always won. I must say from what I heard of, there are really quite a lot of idiotically extremist Christian schools out there teaching creationism as science.
The problem is that Origin of Species does not provide explanation about a lot of missing links, and there is a huge gap between amino acids to single cell organisms.
Darwin never intended to extend Evolution to the very origin, but aethists like to use it to cover more than what it was for.
We have quite a lot of other sources in Biology showing more diverse origins of the evolutionary tree.
Evolution does happen, but obviously aethists give it more credit than it should be while ignoring a lot of other researches in Biology.(not creationism, I mean actual science studies)
I’ll never understand how this is a problem, I went to both a Lutheran and Catholic school and they both taught evolution.
The only thing that makes me go “they never taught that in school” is history about black people. Like you have to learn about that through the internet.
In the mid-1970s in a rural school district in northwest Washington state (I don’t think there were five black students among the 600ish in the school), we learned a bit about the history of black slavery in North America, including the names of several abolitionist leaders both black and white, along with a number of other prominent figures some of whom happened to be black.
I doubt that we learned about any black historical figures without it being mentioned that they were black.
However, I never got the impression that anyone got treated as more important because they were black. That attitude, IMHO, is inherently racist. George Washington Carver was not a significant black botanist; he was a significant botanist, period, oh, and he was black. To focus on black scientists and exclude comparison against white contemporaries belittles his accomplishments.
Do I see “Noah’s Arc”?
Love it. (– from a Christian who also thinks Creationism is idiotic non-science)
ditto’d @jimbalaya
The original Carl Sagan Cosmos was soo much better than the Neil DeGrasse Tyson remake. Even if Ann Druyan, Sagan’s wife, was a writer on both productions.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the Jack Sparrow of science documentaries, he’s not always the best, but he’s the most interesting.
Hahaha. I got kicked out of the “computer class” (a single TRS-80) for daring to ask my “science” teacher ’bout “all dem dinosaurs” (I grew up in the backwoods of Ocala)
I am a Christian, attended a Christian primary and secondary school, in both we had regular science classes that taught evolution and had debate specifically about evolution vs creationism, and evolution side always won. I must say from what I heard of, there are really quite a lot of idiotically extremist Christian schools out there teaching creationism as science.
I haven’t seen the new Cosmos, but I assume there is new stuff in it. This is called inflation.
But if you saw the first one, then, quite likely you’ve been keeping up with news from space meanwhile, anyway.
By the way: Chris Thompson sent me here from newsgroup “talk.origins” after I’d shared this link.
http://notalwayslearning.com/the-devolution-of-education/35155
(the site sometimes has strange effects on your browsing experience, so use it carefully)
And one comment here reminded me of this story:
http://notalwayslearning.com/in-five-years-time-life-goes-on/34569
…which has something wrong with it that I did not notice straight away. I’ve read the bible – all of it – but it kind of blurs together.
Some folks I know are puzzled by “diversion of species”. Is this the same as “divergence”?
The problem is that Origin of Species does not provide explanation about a lot of missing links, and there is a huge gap between amino acids to single cell organisms.
Darwin never intended to extend Evolution to the very origin, but aethists like to use it to cover more than what it was for.
We have quite a lot of other sources in Biology showing more diverse origins of the evolutionary tree.
Evolution does happen, but obviously aethists give it more credit than it should be while ignoring a lot of other researches in Biology.(not creationism, I mean actual science studies)
RU OK?
I was wondering the same! I keep coming back to check for messages or new panels.
I live! New comic will be up, 9/23, as per usual and back on schedule.
Hooray! I think more than a few of us were getting worried there!
Hello, Matt!
Do you really believe in the Evolution theory that was espoused by Darwin, or do you only use it as a foil in your strip?
Just curious.
I’ll never understand how this is a problem, I went to both a Lutheran and Catholic school and they both taught evolution.
The only thing that makes me go “they never taught that in school” is history about black people. Like you have to learn about that through the internet.
In the mid-1970s in a rural school district in northwest Washington state (I don’t think there were five black students among the 600ish in the school), we learned a bit about the history of black slavery in North America, including the names of several abolitionist leaders both black and white, along with a number of other prominent figures some of whom happened to be black.
I doubt that we learned about any black historical figures without it being mentioned that they were black.
However, I never got the impression that anyone got treated as more important because they were black. That attitude, IMHO, is inherently racist. George Washington Carver was not a significant black botanist; he was a significant botanist, period, oh, and he was black. To focus on black scientists and exclude comparison against white contemporaries belittles his accomplishments.
an horrible, horrible nightmare.
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…ok, this was written 3 days ago, but dang it’s depressing with the recent news.
an horrible, horrible nightmare.
…
…ok, this was written 3 *years* ago, but dang it’s depressing with the recent news.
I love this comic, but in most places, this is the other way round.