Texas Goes Full Retard
Texas Bill Would Outlaw Discrimination Against Creationists
Unlike many other states, Texas does not ban workplace discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation, or marital status. But don’t be alarmed; the Lone Star State is working on that whole civil liberties thing. Last week, Republican State Rep. Bill Zedler introduced HB 2454, a bill that would establish new workplace protections for proponents of intelligent design. Here’s the key part:
An institution of higher education may not discriminate against or penalize in any manner, especially with regard to employment or academic support, a faculty member or student based on the faculty member’s or student’s conduct of research relating to the theory of intelligent design or other alternate theories of the origination and development of organisms.
And you thought Berkeley was crazy. On the upside, maybe the University of Texas will be able to help a few of the folks who are falling through Texas’ fraying social safety net. Out of a job? Come up with an elaborate theory about how a flying spaghetti monster created the universe. A tenured professorship awaits.
Mar 18, 2011 @ 22:52:45
Well this would explain why planets are round like meatballs.
Lo and the FSM reach into himself his noodley appendage and plucked from within him a sphere of meat so hot then placed it in the emptiness and called it Sun. Then reaching into himself again he pulled out another ball of meat so lush and fertile and called it Earth.
Mar 19, 2011 @ 02:00:59
Hopefuly this law will have no real life impact as intelligent design is a hypothesis. It does not have supporting evidence to be considered a theory.
Mar 19, 2011 @ 16:50:26
It does not have good supporting evidence to even be a hypothesis.
Mar 21, 2011 @ 11:44:46
Since when does a hypothesis need evidence?? I was taught in school, by a straight faced teacher, that a hypothesis is a fancy way of saying “wild ass guess”, and by its very nature is worth about as much as the air you expell to make it. (Sorry, no coffee this morning so my sarcasm meter is running.)
Mar 21, 2011 @ 12:00:12
Religion is a fancy word for “made up thousands of years ago and followed by people who never question it because then it is not faith.”
I hope that was not a science teacher who taught that wild ass guess about the definition of a hypothesis.
Apr 13, 2011 @ 13:27:07
a hypothesis is “a wild ass guess”
Mar 21, 2011 @ 14:34:19
Actually, it was a fairly grumpy Social Studies teacher, if I recall correctly. =)
Mar 21, 2011 @ 17:19:13
Maybe he should have sat in on some high school level biology/chemistry/physics classes and learned a better definition.
Mar 27, 2011 @ 22:24:02
Actually, that’s pretty much the definition of a hypothesis, albeit a rather more colorful definition than one tends to hear. A hypothesis is nothing more than the researcher’s best guess about what the outcome will be. “Wild-ass guess” works for me!
Mar 21, 2011 @ 14:36:16
Um, just for the record, JusMe: Definition of HYPOTHESIS
1a : an assumption or concession made for the sake of argument
b : an interpretation of a practical situation or condition taken as the ground for action
2: a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences
3: the antecedent clause of a conditional statement
Mar 21, 2011 @ 17:19:36
Or even simpler: An educated guess.
Mar 21, 2011 @ 17:19:56
that is testable
Mar 24, 2011 @ 10:15:36
I love this website, but why did you need to use the word “retard” in the title of this post? I understand that it was probably not meant as a slight to the developmentally disabled, but those of us with children in that category cringe every time that we hear it used to describe something that it stupid or ridiculous.
Mar 24, 2011 @ 16:04:14
“Retard” also means “to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.” Sorry if you were hurt by the word. It’s not our intention to insult those who are mentally-disabled.
Apr 13, 2011 @ 13:28:46
played.