This is my favorite part:


"Bergevin's bill was filed alongside a bill sponsored by two other Republican lawmakers that would broadly call for science teachers to emphasize that new scientific results can dispute established scientific theories. "

These lawmakers should have gone to the junior high school that I went to. We learned about the Scientific Method in the 7th grade, and that was reinforced in almost every grade thereafter and in college. And we learned that accepted scientific theories and laws become part of our understanding of the universe and the basis for exploring less well-understood areas of knowledge. We also learned, in the 7th grade, that theories are discarded when, after repeated experimental tests, a new phenomenon cannot be accommodated by existing theory. In other words, what the lawmakers want taught has been taught for decades already!

Did these guys get past the 7th grade? I would like to see if any of these legislators would jump out of their office windows on the assumption that they will not fall, because, after all, the "Theory of Gravity" is "only a theory".

Morons!

Perstare et praestare. Per aspera ad astra.