{"id":1263,"date":"2011-03-10T21:01:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T01:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2011-03-10T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T01:01:40","slug":"another-paper-critical-of-critical-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Another paper critical of critical analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino compares Florida to Kentucky: “State should at least profit from its ignorance<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s time for Florida to cash in on its vast reservoir of ignorance.<\/p>\n

That’s what Kentucky is doing.<\/p>\n

Kentucky’s giving $37 million in tax breaks to a theme park run by a religious organization that teaches that the Earth is 6,000 years old and was created in six days.<\/p>\n

The “Ark Encounter” theme park, which features a giant Noah’s Ark, is being built by a Christian ministry called Answers in Genesis, which also runs the nearby Creation Museum, a place where tourists can see dinosaurs with riding saddles and attend lectures on that crackpot philosophy masquerading as science, something better known as evolution.<\/p>\n

Shouldn’t Florida have this? At least we’d be creating jobs and skimming tax revenue from all this pre-Enlightenment nuttiness.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Steve Wise, R-Jacksonville, would change the way evolution is taught by requiring public school teachers to also present a “critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution.”<\/p>\n

Wise, an evolution critic who serves as chairman of the Senate Education Pre-K-12 Committee, would be better off channeling his religious zeal into a Garden of Eden flume ride (Look out for that snake!).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino compares Florida to Kentucky: “State should at least profit from its ignorance.” Maybe it’s time for Florida to cash in on its vast reservoir of ignorance. That’s what Kentucky is doing. 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