...create and foster an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that promotes critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories being studied including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.Now, I'm no evil genius, but since when is human cloning a "scientific theory". I understand that there are real ethical and moral issues to be considered, but is there really a debate as to whether it's possible to clone a human?
It's sad that many people, and many voters, don't understand what a theory is. It's sad that, as bad as our education system is, it is being watered down even further. But, what's really sad is that LA lawmakers themselves don't understand what the hell they're talking about, and didn't even bother to look it up before putting their misunderstandings so blatantly into law.
For the record, human cloning is not a theory; it's a controversial scientific possibility that has been banned throughout the world. A theory on the other hand is a set of well supported hypotheses which attempts to
explain the mechanisms behind some observed phenomenon.
So then, maybe it's still yet too early for a Louisiana Science Education Act. Instead it would seem that what the state really needs is a Louisiana Lawmaker Education Act, because the only thing worse than a public that doesn't understand science, is a public that doesn't understand science whose education is being dictated by people who are as illiterate in the subject as they are.
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