Why is Obama unconcerned about bad science in the name of evolution?
Haekel fraudently made drawings of fetal emrio over 150 years ago and the fraud was known at the time and yet even the late Stephen J Gould lamented that these drawing were copied even to this day in public school science texts, high school science books and amazingly even in college text books on science. Obama expresses concern about bad sciece form intelligent design and creationism and yet bad sciecne abounds uncritically in science texts in the name of evolution. Why does he give it a pass.
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Yeah, because all Darwin's work, all the supporting evidence from genetics, all the fossil series, and all the work by every evolutionary biologist for the last century is invalidated by a crappy drawing. What pathetic desperation.
Throughout all this mess of word salad and butchered grammar I actually managed to make some sense of this...
Evolution is fundamental to biology. ID and Creationism aren't even anything resembling science. See the difference? No, of course you don't. You're on Y!A.
drawings of fetal emrio
college text books on science
yet bad sciecne abounds uncritically in science texts in the name of evolution
That's not the only thing that's wrong with public school biology texts (and honestly I learned about this specific thing as a 'look at what someone used to think, and now look at the evidence we have to prove otherwise', though I think that may have been college level; I don't think we saw that in our high school book). The classification system many of them teach (as mine did) has been out of date for at least a couple of decades now, for example.
The thing is, books cost way too much money, and they're the responsibility of the local school boards, which are run by whoever the local people are willing to elect. Obama could perhaps say something about it, but I don't know really what more he could do (except repeal NCLB and let the teachers actually teach, but that's a completely separate topic). ID/creationism is a prominent nationally debated/contested topic, and one that was relevant to the campaign given who was running in the end. Seems appropriate he would comment on it.
If you're so worried about it, why don't you email him and see what he says? Better yet, get a look at your local district's books and complain to the local school board if you find that illustration being taught as current fact (be sure to READ THE ACCOMPANYING TEXT CAREFULLY!). You can't expect the president of the entire country to fix every single local problem in the place.
The spelling, the grammar, it's blinding!
Wait! Two people wrote this dreck?
Okay, here's the time period you're stuck in:image
And here's where we are:image
I admit that there were images of Haeckel's embryos in my High School general science textbook. They were there as an example of how science just fucking works, and how that when many people are allowed to ask questions, we learn a helluva lot more than we do with just a guy making shit up.
Point One Obama is not even in office yet.
Point Two The Haeckel drawings have long since been discounted as an accurate representation.
Therefore your entire post was a waste of time (and I do appreciate that by posting this response I have also wasted some of my time )
"the late Stephen J Gould lamented that these drawing were copied even to this day "
Honestly. I'm sure you're found of a book that's much older, full of fantasy and no facts you'd like to see taught in schools.
bad sciecne abounds uncritically in science texts in the name of evolution.
You wouldn't recognize "bad science" if it bit you on the ass. You automatically call any science "bad" that disagrees with your big book of fairy tales, which pretty much includes every discovery since Columbus.
You're obsolete, and you're becoming more obsolete every year. If we taxed willful ignorance like yours, our financial crisis would be solved.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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