Including the “Gods from Outer Space” theory.
WASHINGTON — Tennessee is poised to adopt a law that would allow public schoolteachers to challenge climate change and evolution in their classrooms without fear of sanction, according to educators and civil libertarians in the state.
Passed by the state Legislature and awaiting Republican Gov.Bill Haslam‘s signature, the measure is likely to stoke growing concerns among science teachers around the country that teaching climate science is becoming the same kind of classroom and community flash point as evolution. If it becomes law, Tennessee will become the second state, after Louisiana, to allow the teaching of alternatives to accepted science on climate change.
The Tennessee measure does not require the teaching of alternatives to scientific theories of evolution, climate change, human cloning and “the chemical origins of life.” Instead, the legislation would prevent school administrators from reining in teachers who expound on alternative hypotheses to those topics.
The measure’s primary sponsor, Republican state Sen. Bo Watson, said it was meant to give teachers the clarity and security to discuss alternative ideas to evolution and climate change that students may have picked up at home and want to explore in class.
In the world of science denial, anything you want is possible!!
whats next? scientology is factually based? duh..
eric von daniken was exposed as a fraudster years ago…
It is pretty obvious that the Flying Spaghetti Monster controls the Earth’s climate, and now the Tennessee state legislature has allowed teachers to spread these and other noodly truths in that state’s science classrooms.
Ramen, brothers and sisters! The truth will win out through all America and the world.
naah after noahs fludde, the vogons took over by building a space bypass..the earth god destroyed so all of us now are digital clones recreated from data banks
Blasphemy. His Great Noodliness would never allow such things to come to pass.
Do these supposed “vogons” or “earth god” control the climate? Ridiculous. Only a great creator such as the Flying Spaghetti Monster has control of these processes. Tides go in. Tides go out. You can’t explain that.
tides are radio controlled by the magic robot of Fnarlg…there ive explained it.
Actually, God is a big-breasted lesbian manic-depressive with multiple-personality disorder. And that’s the truth.
i think it was the bloke next door to queen blurpwangler he was called george oleg von yakburger he came up with the lesbian theory..look what happened to him
In an ideal world, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series would be compulsory viewing for all teenagers and above.
that series makes more sense if its played backwards
Three cheers for Sagan.
i think sagan had a sex change and married a hamster..
ALEC has something to do with this law…organized so other states will do the same
that Alec gets everywhere…he was on my bus the other day
Adak climbed out of the primordial swamp and masturbated. The ancient Egyptians knew that, we have just forgotten.
i thought it was primordial soup
FSM it is. What we need here is “immersion” teaching.
Teachers need to learn the lingo. Then we could ensure that all science lessons were a 2 hour version of Talk Like A Pirate Day.
I was pleased to see the Ancient Aliens director consulted a Folklorist. His Ph.D. trumps Monckton’s degree in classics, but there is little difference in reality. I was disappointed Monckton did not make a guest appearance: perhaps he was out of town at the time, lecturing to gullible legislators in Good Ol’ Tennessee.
Is Monckton a result of alien cloning? That would explain a lot … “8-)
a toff in a baseball cap looks weird