But since he's a "huge science buff," we should just accept that this is the right way to teach kids about science and how the universe works.
'HB 291, the "Missouri Standard Science Act," redefines a few things you thought you already knew about science. For example, a "hypothesis" is redefined as something that reflects a "minority of scientific opinion and is "philosophically unpopular." A scientific theory is "an inferred explanation…whose components are data, logic and faith-based philosophy." And "destiny" is not something that $5 fortune tellers believe in; Instead, it's "the events and processes that define the future of the universe, galaxies, stars, our solar system, earth, plant life, animal life, and the human race."'
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Anti-Evolution Missouri Bill Requires College Students to Learn About Destiny
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Rick Brattin, is a “huge science buff.”
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Why not just just redefine "science" as "any system of belief in which facts are interpreted"? Much more elegant, and no less insane.
Sounds rather Orwellian to me.
Apparently Brattin has made a Facebook posting saying
(see http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/01/12/republican-rick-brattin-wants-to-ruin-science-education-in-missouri/)
Well, Rep. Brattin, I worry that a bunch of kids will be taught false things in school, contributing to poorer job prospects for those kids later in life, and potentially leading to less innovation and investment in biotechnology in the USA, thereby handicapping the US economy.
Hear hear.