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If My Daughter Learns Evolution, She’ll Get Rejected from Vet School, Says West Virginia Dad
(Found at Friendly Atheist)
Earlier this month, West Virginian Kenneth Smith filed a lawsuit against everyone he could think of involved in teaching evolution to his daughter.
That list included the Jefferson County Board of Education, the State Superintendent, the U.S. Secretary of Education, and the Director of the National Institutes of Health. (If he were alive, I’m sure Charles Darwin would have made the list.)
What did they all do wrong?
Smith says that by promoting evolution, they’re ruining his daughter’s ability to get into veterinarian school, thereby stopping her from earning a good living.
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That list included the Jefferson County Board of Education, the State Superintendent, the U.S. Secretary of Education, and the Director of the National Institutes of Health. (If he were alive, I’m sure Charles Darwin would have made the list.)
What did they all do wrong?
Smith says that by promoting evolution, they’re ruining his daughter’s ability to get into veterinarian school, thereby stopping her from earning a good living.
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Er, no . . . I don't even . . . what?!
More, as they say, at link:
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Thank you for posting that!
If you think you can avoid exposing them to evolution at the college level by enrolling them in your local know-nothing Bible college…well, what did I just say about vet schools being competitive? No one is going to be impressed, even if she gets straight “A”s in a substandard school, or worse, a school that isn’t even accredited.
So you bite the bullet and send your daughter to a real school, and you tell her to pray a lot and not listen when the professors explain how the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, or perhaps you tell her to listen and parrot it back on the tests, but don’t believe it. It won’t work. It’s not like evolution represents a small collection of facts she can regurgitate on an exam — it’s a whole body of concepts that reinforce each other and make biology comprehensible. Higher ed is not an exercise in memorization! You can’t pretend her brain is a Chinese room and that she can just shuffle out answers reflexively without thinking about them.
So you bite the bullet and send your daughter to a real school, and you tell her to pray a lot and not listen when the professors explain how the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, or perhaps you tell her to listen and parrot it back on the tests, but don’t believe it. It won’t work. It’s not like evolution represents a small collection of facts she can regurgitate on an exam — it’s a whole body of concepts that reinforce each other and make biology comprehensible. Higher ed is not an exercise in memorization! You can’t pretend her brain is a Chinese room and that she can just shuffle out answers reflexively without thinking about them.
This is what confuses the hell out of me when it comes to educated people like Ben Carson:
Evolution
Carson's views on evolution and creationism have also been controversial. In a 2006 debate with Richard Dawkins, Francis Collins, and Daniel Dennett, Carson stated: "I don't believe in evolution...I simply don't have enough faith to believe that something as complex as our ability to rationalize, think, and plan, and have a moral sense of what's right and wrong, just appeared."[77] In 2012, nearly 500 professors, students, and alumni of Emory University wrote a letter expressing concern about his views in advance of his commencement speech (there was no request to rescind the invitation). They cited a quote in an interview with the Adventist Review: "By believing we are the product of random acts, we eliminate morality and the basis of ethical behavior". Carson clarified that "Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people."[76]
Carson's views on evolution and creationism have also been controversial. In a 2006 debate with Richard Dawkins, Francis Collins, and Daniel Dennett, Carson stated: "I don't believe in evolution...I simply don't have enough faith to believe that something as complex as our ability to rationalize, think, and plan, and have a moral sense of what's right and wrong, just appeared."[77] In 2012, nearly 500 professors, students, and alumni of Emory University wrote a letter expressing concern about his views in advance of his commencement speech (there was no request to rescind the invitation). They cited a quote in an interview with the Adventist Review: "By believing we are the product of random acts, we eliminate morality and the basis of ethical behavior". Carson clarified that "Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people."[76]
How the hell does a world renowned neurosurgeon come to the conclusion that the batshit fucking insanity called 'young earth creationism' is the correct "theory"?
Still trying to understand his ranting about the different shades of blonde hair. Though I suspect trying to understand it is a mistake in the first place.
..."kattywompus" is just over the top...and hurtful...
Plus, you make "Klutz" sound like a bad thing...
Now I hadz the sadz... 
Oh Heddi.....
that's the way all the kids these days are wearing their glasses and hair.
Geez.... get with it girl!
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Place reminds me of my favourite bar back in the day.
NO SUCH THING as a friendly atheist!
I clicked on that link and it's nothing but snobby heathens bashing Christians. 
