Bill Nye vs Ken Ham
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@tim said:
@unknownuser said:
@solo said:
My eldest is busy doing the application process for West point and it seems he will have to say he is of some Christian denomination as the recruiter advised that his chances of entering will to slim to none if he says he is non religious regardless of his almost perfect SAT scores and other requirements.
That's ... weird.
Actually I'm fairly sure it's a violation of the US constitution, which makes it rather more serious than simply 'weird'. There has been a long running scandal at the airforce academy in Colorado along similar lines. Not a few of my friends and colleagues that are alumni have become very disturbed enough that several of the colonels and above have sent pointed notes.
probably not a violation (or a prosecutable one) as it sounds more like an under the table deal and i highly doubt they'll leave official traces of someone being denied entrance due to religious background.
sounds nutz nonetheless.
personally, i have problems with authority (i guess that's how it would be described by an authoritarian figure).. i'd never make it past day 1 in a military type academy ..or, i'd never make it in because in this instance, when they start asking about religion etc, i'd be "why do you want to know that!? why is that important? etc"
hammond- application denied!
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Jeff
I agree, like the recruiter said, it would be in his best interest if he did have a religion, he did say you do not have to be a practicing one, just say you are one for the sake of a smooth application process.
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Nye will continue his crusade against misinformation this Sunday on "Meet the Press" with a debate against proud climate change denier Marsha Blackburn, the Republican congresswoman who serves as the vice chair of the House Energy & Commerce Committee.
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Wow! just wow.
1 in 4 Americans Don't Know Earth Orbits the Sun. Yes, Really.
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@solo said:
Wow! just wow.
1 in 4 Americans Don't Know Earth Orbits the Sun. Yes, Really.
Another way of looking at it might be that 1 in 4 Americans don't care about such facts!
This is more,
Americans surveyed: misunderstood, misrepresented or ignorant?
"In 2003, a US Strategic Task Force of Education Abroad report concluded that America’s ignorance of the outside world was so great as to constitute a threat to national security"
Americans surveyed: misunderstood, misrepresented or ignorant?
Following the results of the poll suggesting a quarter of Americans do not know the Earth circles the Sun, we look at some other examples of surprising US survey results
The Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Then again, maybe they subscribe to, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society
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lol, south pole exploration must be some fun in that version of the world...
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@unknownuser said:
Another way of looking at it might be that 1 in 4 Americans don't care about such facts!
It has nothing to do with interests or what one cares about, these are 3rd grade facts surely there is no excuse for not knowing the earth rotates around the sun every 365 days.
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@solo said:
It has nothing to do with interests or what one cares about, these are 3rd grade facts surely there is no excuse for not knowing the earth rotates around the sun every 365 days.
True !
The pig also doesn't care of that, but only of its meal... but then, it gets slaughtered.
Doesn't mater if it doesn't help you to get your next-day meal, there are some common-sense things that anyone who has access to basic education should know. Otherwise one is purely ignorant and from my part he should be made sausages
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@derei said:
@solo said:
It has nothing to do with interests or what one cares about, these are 3rd grade facts surely there is no excuse for not knowing the earth rotates around the sun every 365 days.
True !
The pig also doesn't care of that, but only of its meal... but then, it gets slaughtered.
Doesn't mater if it doesn't help you to get your next-day meal, there are some common-sense things that anyone who has access to basic education should know. Otherwise one is purely ignorant and from my part he should be made sausages
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@solo said:
@unknownuser said:
Another way of looking at it might be that 1 in 4 Americans don't care about such facts!
It has nothing to do with interests or what one cares about, these are 3rd grade facts surely there is no excuse for not knowing the earth rotates around the sun every 365 days.
I thought it was 365 1/4 days.
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A year is 365.24 days. Or 8,765 hours, or 526,000 minutes, or 31.6 million seconds. The tricky one is the number of days. Because the earth year doesn't work out to exactly 365 days, we have the leap year.
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According to a report on Huffington Post, the Nye-Ham debate has spurred enough interest for Ham to raise money to proceed with his Noah's Ark creation.
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Oh well, good for him. I saw a tv programme on Ham's 'museum' a few years ago -thoroughly entertaining stuff.
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At least the money is going to comedy and not to buying another politician.
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