Texas school board "new earther" defeated in election?

There is denial and ignorance in all areas of our civilization. There is no accounting for it except for blind faith in what others have said. Based on our own way of thinking, we hear a concept that seems reasonable.

There are many that actually believe that dinosaurs are a lie made up by atheists to disclaim the belief in Creation. There is no room in their minds for both so they pick one and deny one. We find ignorance in religion, politics, business and hear it spoken in the local coffee shop.

Ignorance today is usually self imposed by a mind closed to new ideas and concepts. With the availability of information on the internet there is no excuse for not knowing.

I often think of my father who read continually, every book, magazine and watched every knowledge based show he cold not television. What a resource of knowledge and information he would have found here on line. He was a good Christian man who denied the excuse of ignorance in his life, he always lived to learn, there was no place for self imposed ignorance in his mind.

A preponderance of evidence strongly suggests the Earth is a lot older than that but it largely relies on presuppositions that are at least partially circular.

In short, the authentic science on that question is not in fact settled so I'd shrink from having "science" decisions made by anyone who claims it is.

I think the dinosaur age precedes humans by orders of magnitude but I'm honest enough to say our present state of knowledge leaves this an unfalsifiable proposition. In other words, my scientific literacy combined with my integrity lead me to admit it is a largely faith-based belief. Circumstantial evidence exists to suggest humans may have seen dinosaurs and that some fossil finds are only a few thousand years old. If I had to wager, I'd say other explanations account for it, that the conventional view is in fact correct.

Honest people don't object to letting people weigh presentations from both sides. Doing so will, I believe, lead most to accept "conventional wisdom" but to acknowledge the possibility the "new Earthers" may be on to something.

Time itself appears to be a physical property and there is evidence it may not "flow" uniformly throughout space. While we assume "something must be wrong" with our methods, we have discovered celestial bodies that appear to be older than the universe itself. This might be seen as throwing the whole science of dating the ancient into question from the outset. Maybe the whole thing is actually unknowable.

Of course. It is great that people are taking this issue into their own hands and letting the fundamentalists know that they want their children to learn science, not religion in the public schools.

We wonder why our education system is failing. It is obvious when we have people like that deciding on curriculum. The rest of the world in advancing in education and technology, and we are falling behind.

Those who choose to remain ignorant can home school, but the country needs educated people, not people raised on myths. And we wonder why we have such a shortage of science and math teachers.

The Texas School board would never tolerate New Earth "science" influence.

We were never taught anything but evolution in Texas Public Schools.

I'm glad he was defeated but his effect on decisions would have been negligible anyway.

"Texas school board "new earther" defeated in election..."

I guess Texans aren't stupid after all?