“We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.”
Gunnar wrote:It is increasingly obvious to me that religious, conservative fundamentalists are painfully aware of and resent how old religious dogmas have repeatedly had to yield in past history to the realities discovered by modern, empirical science, and are increasingly desperate to try to put an end to that before any more of their remaining, false dogmas are exposed as such. Thus the virulent, anti-science stance of current, mainstream, Republicans. It really is true that reality has a very strong liberal bias!
ldsfaqs wrote:Bull pucky.....
There is NOTHING anti-science about Republicans other than the liberal Ice Age, now Global Warming, now Climate Change nuts. We are against BAD SCIENCE, not science.
40 years ago the liberal nuts where claiming the world was going to end in 20 years with an Ice Age. Didn't happen. Then the earth started getting hotter because of high Sun Spot activity, so they in their extreme environmentalism blame it on pollution and then it's Global Warming, not due to Sun Spots, but MAN..... Not only that, but the earth was going to end in 10 years, DIDN'T HAPPEN.... Now that the Sun Spots of died down (but they ignore that fact) they now notice the earth is in a cooling stage, so instead of Global Warming, it's now "Climate Change". Hey classic redefinition of words..... Just like back when they were racist Progressives creating Planned Parenthood to eliminate blacks and other "undesirable", Progressive became a bad word, so they adopted the term Liberal which belonged to Freedom loving Libertarians and Conservatives, the values that founded this country. Now Liberal is a bad word, so they try to call themselves "Progressives" again....
Gunnar wrote:ldsfaqs wrote:Bull pucky.....
There is NOTHING anti-science about Republicans other than the liberal Ice Age, now Global Warming, now Climate Change nuts. We are against BAD SCIENCE, not science.
40 years ago the liberal nuts where claiming the world was going to end in 20 years with an Ice Age. Didn't happen. Then the earth started getting hotter because of high Sun Spot activity, so they in their extreme environmentalism blame it on pollution and then it's Global Warming, not due to Sun Spots, but MAN..... Not only that, but the earth was going to end in 10 years, DIDN'T HAPPEN.... Now that the Sun Spots of died down (but they ignore that fact) they now notice the earth is in a cooling stage, so instead of Global Warming, it's now "Climate Change". Hey classic redefinition of words..... Just like back when they were racist Progressives creating Planned Parenthood to eliminate blacks and other "undesirable", Progressive became a bad word, so they adopted the term Liberal which belonged to Freedom loving Libertarians and Conservatives, the values that founded this country. Now Liberal is a bad word, so they try to call themselves "Progressives" again....
The real bull pucky is the myth that in the '70s, scientists were predicting a coming ice age. See http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/short ... -myth.html
Of 71 papers published between 1965 and 1979 about climate change, 44 predicted global warming, 20 were neutral and only 7 predicted global cooling. For some reason, the latter are the ones that got all the media publicity. Since then, the evidence has piled up tremendously in favor of global warming to the point that 97 to 98 percent of the world's climate scientists acknowledge that AGW is a real and troubling reality. Global warming, by almost all accounts, is actually proceeding faster than was predicted in the 1990's. This is very well documented on sites like realscience.com, climate crock of the week, and numerous other sites that examine the findings of actual climatologists.
beastie wrote:ldsfaq is the posterboy demonstrating why all of us should be concerned about the republican party's bias against critical thinking skills.