{"id":2346,"date":"2015-08-20T18:32:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2015-08-20T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T22:32:09","slug":"science-is-science-hopefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2346","title":{"rendered":"Science is science, hopefully"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay’s Creative Loafing blog Political Animal has a post up entitled School of thought: Florida schools are ripe for potential church-state violations<\/a>. Of interest to us is this observation:<\/p>\n

Science is science. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d think there wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be any argument over whether something that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not based on empirical evidence should be taught in science classes. But creationism still creeps into some classrooms. Obviously if a teacher is discussing religious tenets in the context of a humanities class, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one thing. But anyone who thinks Satan put dinosaur bones underground to trick us into thinking the universe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s age exceeds 6,000 years should probably not be teaching science. Or anything at a public school.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a teacher telling you that creationism is the way and that you need to pray, we will come in there and we will fix that,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Seidel said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fix it, we will sue that school.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay’s Creative Loafing blog Political Animal has a post up entitled School of thought: Florida schools are ripe for potential church-state violations. Of interest to us is this observation: Science is science. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d think there wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be any argument … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-BQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2118,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2118","url_meta":{"origin":2346,"position":0},"title":"Nope, I didn’t say that.","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A column was published today in the Tallahassee Democrat (Michael McShane: Don't blame vouchers for poor science instruction) that agrees with my earlier column in that newspaper concerning how it's wrong to teach creationism, but then he distorts the purpose of my column and attributes motives to me that I\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1234,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1234","url_meta":{"origin":2346,"position":1},"title":"Sound of Science","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Very cool song \"The Sound of Science\". 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