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The Universe May Not be Expanding

Category: Creation Science • Creationism • Intelligent Design
Posted on: May 6, 2009 4:49 PM, by Greg Laden

... according to Texas education experts.

Of course, everyone in Texas is a moron. Apparently.

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Probably the best line about Texas ever!

Chelina Hall: Hey! Pretty boy. How’d you like to go to Texas?
Alan Shore: I’d love to. I haven’t had my shots.

Posted by: mk | May 6, 2009 5:13 PM

Hey, not all of us are morons, so says the UT graduate who just wrote a check to TFN to unseat the biggest Texas moron of all-Don McElroy.

Posted by: Donna | May 6, 2009 5:51 PM

I clicked this in my RSS feed expecting some cool new evidence that overturns the current physics model of the universe. How sadly disappointed I was.

I'd like to motion that we have "avid discussion" to take place in math classrooms about whether pi is equal to 3.141[....], and strike that language and replace it with "current theories about the number pi being equal to a little over 3, or 'almost 3'."

Posted by: Jason Thibeault | May 6, 2009 6:53 PM

Jason,

Don't you understand the spiritual significance of the number 3? God is 3 persons that are all the same. Jesus died on a Friday evening and 3 days later on Sunday morning he arose. The circle's circumferance is 3 times as long as its diameter. Etc. Can't you see that it's all spiritually interconnected??? It is at the heart of Christianity!

If we were to allow schools to teach that π is what mathematicians say it is, kids would be learning that the heart of Christianity is ... irrational! Obviously math doesn't have all the answers. Our children need to be taught the strengths and weaknesses of arithmetic "theory".

Posted by: The Science Pundit | May 6, 2009 7:17 PM

I was going to call Science Pundit a Poe, but... well... his argument is totally sound.

http://www.purplemath.com/modules/bibleval.htm

Teach the controversy!!!

Posted by: Jason Thibeault | May 6, 2009 8:00 PM

Another best-ever line about Texas:

I don't have a problem with an asteroid the size of Texas hitting the earth, as long as it actually hits Texas.

Posted by: deang | May 6, 2009 8:46 PM

Go, Donna! (Or if it still doesn't work out, you can always come up here.)

Posted by: Stephanie Z | May 6, 2009 9:25 PM