Missouri Governor: Anti-Evolution Bill Will Hurt Children

Republicans pushing yet another reactionary anti-science bill
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I was about to write that it was nice to see a Republican standing up to the all-powerful anti-science wing of the party for a change, but then I checked, and Gov. Jay Nixon is a Democrat, which comes as no surprise at all: Evolution Bill Not Best for Education, Governor Says.

Background: a group of fanatically religious Missouri Republicans are trying to pass a bill that would allow parents to take their children out of science classes that teach the theory of evolution.

“I think we need to respect people’s individual religious beliefs obviously, and I certainly appreciate that,” Nixon said. “But I think extricating children from science classes is not in the best interest of our STEM Initiative.”

Nixon said creationism is “what we study on Sunday, not on Monday.”

The state’s STEM initiative is an attempt to boost education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math.

State Reps. Dave Schatz, R-Sullivan, Paul Curtman, R-Pacific, and Dave Hinson, R-St. Clair, have said they think parents should be allowed to remove their children from classes that teach evolution.

The Republican Party is the party for you — if you reject the entire basis of modern biological science.

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78 comments
1 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:18:35am

The Bible is not a text book. Get that thru your faith addled craniums.

2 GunstarGreen  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:27:59am

My religion rejects the theory of Arabic numerals, because everyone knows that ay-rabs are heathen scum.

Therefore, Billy Bob Ray Jr. will no longer be attending your so-called “Mathematics” classes, and I expect there to be a passing grade on his report!

3 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:29:32am

BLAME CANADA!

4 Testy Toad T  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:29:53am

Heavens to Betsy, however could we insulate Little Billy from that hateful Satanic Punnett square without shoving our religion down everyone’s fucking throat?

5 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:30:05am

LOSER KEEPS BIEBER.

6 b.d.  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:31:17am

But there is stuff we just don’t want to know, important stuff!!

//

7 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:31:20am

Good for Governor Nixon! I’m glad to see someone not afraid to stand up to these cretins.

OT, but Yanuokvych’s family has apparently landed a short while ago at Heathrow Airport, London.

8 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:31:39am

re: #5 Pie-onist Overlord

LOSER KEEPS BIEBER.

USA! USA! USA!

9 kerFuFFler  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:31:49am

It really is important for people to understand how species in ecosystems co-evolve. If you don’t have a sense how that plays out you will not really understand the danger inherent with global climate change. Too many people don’t get that change that happens too quickly for ecosystems to adapt can be catastrophically destructive. Sure, bugs and other creatures with super short life cycles might be able to keep up with the changes, but larger animals and trees that take years to mature cannot because they have relatively few generations over a span of years. Having even just a few species wiped out can throw an ecosystem into a tailspin, so we need to take action now.

10 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:33:12am

It just gets better and better.

This needs to be broadcast on loudspeakers in Kyiv. It’ll demoralize the Berkut and other regime loyalists once they realize their leaders are rats fleeing the sinking ship.

11 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:33:41am
12 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:34:16am

re: #10 Dr Lizardo

It just gets better and better.

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This needs to be broadcast on loudspeakers in Kyiv. It’ll demoralize the Berkut and other regime loyalists once they realize their leaders are rats fleeing the sinking ship.

Dear security stooges,

You are just as expendable to your leaders as the people you have been shooting.

13 Bulworth  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:34:19am

re: #2 GunstarGreen

Also, these so-called “history” classes you offer, talking about slavery. We don’t like that. You should only teach good stuff about America. /

14 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:35:16am

re: #13 Bulworth

Also, these so-called “history” classes you offer, talking about slavery. We don’t like that. You should only teach good stuff about America. /

Like when Jesus appeared to Ben Franklin and handed him the Constitution.

15 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:35:27am

These kids have all Sunday morning to go to a church-sponsored school and be taught their respective families’ version of Truth…

16 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:37:46am

re: #12 Kragar

Dear security stooges,

You are just as expendable to your leaders as the people you have been shooting.

Precisely. It won’t take long for them to figure they’re being hung to dry.

17 Testy Toad T  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:38:00am

re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

These kids have all Sunday morning to go to a church-sponsored school and be taught their respective families’ version of Truth…

For people who are utterly and completely confident of their version of Truth, they sure are afraid of falsehoods.

Brainwashing children is an abomination.

18 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:38:08am

re: #3 Pie-onist Overlord

BLAME CANADA!

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19 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:38:24am

re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

These kids have all Sunday morning to go to a church-sponsored school and be taught their respective families’ version of Truth…

“In the beginning, the Elder Things came from the stars and created life on Earth…”

20 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:38:53am

re: #14 Kragar

Like when Jesus appeared to Ben Franklin and handed him the Constitution.

That was in the McNaughton painting.

And then somebody redid the painting with Cthulhu in the place of Jesus. Epic.

21 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:40:15am

re: #14 Kragar

Like when Jesus appeared to Ben Franklin and handed him the Constitution.

I thought that was Cthulhu.

22 Gus  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:40:23am

Causing trouble.

23 RadicalModerate  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:40:39am

re: #5 Pie-onist Overlord

LOSER KEEPS BIEBER.

President Obama and Prime Minister Harper have a bet for a case of beer for this game and the men’s semifinal game tomorrow.

Honestly, Obama should have held out for something better than Canadian beer.

At least the US has a good craft beer industry, because I think sending our mass-produced stuff could be considered an act of war.


Also, I just noticed. The 20-minute sudden death period is 4-on-4 hockey, which is just nuts.

24 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:40:52am

re: #20 Pie-onist Overlord

That was in the McNaughton painting.

And then somebody redid the painting with Cthulhu in the place of Jesus. Epic.

Image: one_nation_under_chtulu.jpg

25 chadu  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:40:54am

re: #11 Kragar

How do these people manage to dress and feed themselves?

26 Mattand  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:41:56am

re: #19 Kragar

“In the beginning, the Elder Things came from the stars and created life on Earth…”

And Chtullu looked upon the blind six foot penguins with his terrible gaze and saw that it was foul.

And on the seventh day, he corrupted the souls of the barristas; and the firemen; and the mid-level cantaloupe sales reps; and the sewing machines; and saw it was foul.

(Look up the penguin part; the rest is just me being bored.)

27 ericblair  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:42:17am

re: #23 RadicalModerate

President Obama and Prime Minister Harper have a bet for a case of beer for this game and the men’s semifinal game tomorrow.

Honestly, Obama should have held out for something better than Canadian beer.

I’d gladly take a case of Fin du Monde.

28 Mattand  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:42:39am

re: #25 chadu

How do these people manage to dress and feed themselves?

With great effort.

29 wrenchwench  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:43:21am

re: #25 chadu

How do these people manage to dress and feed themselves?

Lunchables and Velcro?

30 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:43:40am

GOOD.

31 Kilroy01  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:44:17am

re: #25 chadu

Garanimals

32 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:44:23am

re: #21 Dr Lizardo

I thought that was Cthulhu.

Same difference.

33 Gus  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:46:04am
34 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:46:24am

re: #26 Mattand

And Chtullu looked upon the blind six foot penguins with his terrible gaze and saw that it was foul.

And on the seventh day, he corrupted the souls of the barristas; and the firemen; and the mid-level cantaloupe sales reps; and the sewing machines; and saw it was foul.

(Look up the penguin part; the rest is just me being bored.)

Cthulhu doesn’t care about silly little things like souls.

35 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:46:27am

And biology and evolution causing issues is just the first one. After that they have to reject geology due to Deep Time; astronomy and physics due to the speed of light and Doppler Shift; and after that you might as well treat everything else as fair game since history and literature will have been butchered by then as well.

36 Ryan King  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:46:59am

We do not need to ‘respect’ people’s religious beliefs. We should acknowledge and accommodate beliefs as long as those beliefs accommodate the rest of society.

Teaching creationism/ID or denying evolution fails in this regard. Saying we need to ‘respect’ people’s religious beliefs not a good way to state it.

37 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:47:06am

re: #34 Kragar

Cthulhu doesn’t care about silly little things like souls.

So we should be keeping our eye on ketchup futures, is that what you’re telling us?
:p

38 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:47:15am

re: #34 Kragar

Cthulhu doesn’t care about silly little things like souls.

Yes he does, fried in butter.

39 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:49:04am

A private jet from Bratislava, Slovakia, is on its way to Kyiv. Will land at appx. 22:10.

40 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:49:05am

re: #37 Feline Fearless Leader

So we should be keeping our eye on ketchup futures, is that what you’re telling us?
:p

I’ve got a deal with the Mi-Go to put my brain in a canister, but I’m fairly sure the rest of you are fooked.

41 Mattand  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:49:44am

re: #38 Pie-onist Overlord

Yes he does, fried in butter.

You know why Chtullu is the embodiment of pure evil and the bringer of the Apocalypse?

His cholesterol is through the roof.

Also, he’s an 800 foot octopus demon.

With high cholesterol.

42 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:49:56am

re: #38 Pie-onist Overlord

Yes he does, fried in butter.

Nope, you’re thinking Nyarlethotep, the Crawling Chaos.

A common mistake.

43 Mattand  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:50:23am

re: #40 Kragar

I’ve got a deal with the Mi-Go to put my brain in a canister, but I’m fairly sure the rest of you are fooked.

All I could afford was a Pringles canister.

44 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:52:30am

STUPID FLAPPY HEADS

45 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:52:48am

re: #43 Mattand

All I could afford was a Pringles canister.

Ah, the economy deal.

46 Mattand  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:53:03am

re: #44 Pie-onist Overlord

STUPID FLAPPY HEADS

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I, for one, shall blame Canada.

47 Gus  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:53:25am

Canada wins.

48 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:53:32am

THEY’RE NOT EVEN A REAL COUNTRY ANYWAY

49 Kilroy01  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:53:53am

That is what I’m talkin aboot!

50 Bulworth  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:54:14am

re: #44 Pie-onist Overlord

This should be reason enough for us all to go home for the day.

51 Gus  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:54:24am

re: #48 Pie-onist Overlord

THEY’RE NOT EVEN A REAL COUNTRY ANYWAY

True. They’re like Australia. //

52 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:54:51am

re: #45 Kragar

Ah, the economy deal.

There’s two levels of economy deal. The Pringles container or you can upgrade to a mason jar. I went with the latter.

53 RadicalModerate  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:54:56am

re: #44 Pie-onist Overlord

STUPID FLAPPY HEADS

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Canada got a power play as a result of what may have been the biggest phantom slashing calls ever. American player was playing puck in front of goalie, and her stick hit the goalie’s pads. Really.

54 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:55:00am

For all their hockey hullaballoo
And that bitch Justin Bieber too

55 Eclectic Cyborg  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:55:03am

Proud for the Canadian women, but it’s the men’s game I’m really interested in.

56 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:56:41am
57 Testy Toad T  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:57:43am

There but for the grace of post go Gold.

Image: UcPsn4g.jpg

Fuckin’ hockey.

58 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:58:52am

re: #52 Dr Lizardo

There’s two levels of economy deal. The Pringles container or you can upgrade to a mason jar. I went with the latter.

Went with the brain-o-tastic 3000, the Rolls Royce of brain canisters.

Pays for itself in the long run, especially after the first 1000 years.

As a brain, in a canister….

I might need to rethink this.

59 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:59:23am
60 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 11:59:44am
61 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:00:39pm

re: #60 Dr Lizardo

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Don’t the oligarchs have private helicopters?

62 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:01:23pm
63 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:02:02pm

Now I have absolutely no reason to watch the NBC delayed broadcast tonight.

64 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:02:30pm

re: #61 Pie-onist Overlord

Don’t the oligarchs have private helicopters?

I would imagine most do, but perhaps not all of them.

65 lawhawk  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:04:20pm

Sweet jeebus:

66 Charles Johnson  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:04:34pm

re: #62 Kragar

That’s true, but it occurs to me that someone who works for the Daily Caller isn’t exactly standing on solid ground when he calls other people idiots.

67 Tigger2  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:04:37pm

re: #11 Kragar

“Erik Rush Warns That GOP Is Working With Obama to Set Up Jihadi Cells”…

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Just in the South what’s the big deal. //

68 Mattand  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:04:56pm

re: #63 Pie-onist Overlord

Now I have absolutely no reason to watch the NBC delayed broadcast tonight.

LOL, mine was that NBC is showing the Olympics.

BOOM!

69 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:05:22pm

The President of the Ukrainian Parliament, Volodymyr Rybak, has fled Ukraine together with his family.

70 Romantic Heretic  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:06:24pm
“It’s pretty simple really — good schools help create good jobs,” Nixon said. “From pre-K to college, we need to make sure every Missouri student has an opportunity to get a good education.”

We don’t want good jobs! We want our children to get into Heaven!

71 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:07:11pm
72 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:08:02pm
73 Kragar  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:09:02pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

That’s true, but it occurs to me that someone who works for the Daily Caller isn’t exactly standing on solid ground when he calls other people idiots.

I agree, it is a game of inches there.

74 aagcobb  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:09:58pm

re: #13 Bulworth

Also, these so-called “history” classes you offer, talking about slavery. We don’t like that. You should only teach good stuff about America. /

Do we really need to talk about slavery in history class? After all, it happened a long time ago.//

75 nines09  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:13:30pm

The GOP is the party of choice if you want to live in 1062. They would be Kings, they would. And we would be vassals, we would.

76 Romantic Heretic  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:18:39pm

re: #23 RadicalModerate

Honestly, Obama should have held out for something better than Canadian beer.

Excuse me?

You’ve never had any of the Mill Street Brewery’s creations. Their Tankhouse Ale is wonderful.

Also making great beers is Unibroue. My favourite of their is La Fin du Monde (The End of The World). It comes in quart bottles and it is recommended you take your time savouring it.

Now if you’re talking Labbat’s or Molson’s concoctions I wouldn’t give them to the President, or anybody else I liked.

77 Romantic Heretic  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:20:51pm

re: #37 Feline Fearless Leader

So we should be keeping our eye on ketchup futures, is that what you’re telling us?
:p

I think He prefers his souls with hot mustard.

78 Good Morning  Thu, Feb 20, 2014 3:36:25pm

Maybe we should stop evolution while we humans are still #1.


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