“Should evolution be taught in schools?” That was the question actually put to participants in the Miss USA pageant held this past June.
In response, MacKenzie Fegan and her friends had some fun with the whole line of thinking, shooting their own mock video in reply. Enjoy, and do know that we heart Miss Vermont…
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You don’t believe in math???? You mean you don’t believe 1+1=2?? I thought this was an SNL skit! LMFAO!!!
Never mind, I commented BEFORE I saw this IS a skit. But, I don’t doubt that some of the real Miss America contestants think this this way as well, judging by the answers they gave on there subject regarding the teaching of evolution. For Pete’s sake, Miss Alabama said she doesn’t think it should be taught just because SHE doesn’t believe in it. (??)
I laughed out loud…until I watched the actual Miss USA competition and I wept. Good grief…
Good grief! 1 out of 50 got the answer correct. Vermont paraphrased: “Yes. It’s real. Scientific facts are important! Why not learn it?” Are there actually schools that don’t teach it? Wouldn’t that leave students taking Biology classes a bit confused if they didn’t at least bring it up? WTF America!
They are not even the same girls in the two videos. You claim they are the same batch of people but they are not. Shame on you for trying to make a point with faked videos.
Brian: who claims that? Shame on you for not paying attention. The video is hilarious and an obvious parody.
Sometimes I think the Chinese have been putting lead in all the drinking water.
Read the tops of the two videos. Both videos state the women are miss USA. If you don’t think that is a statement you should stop drinking your Chinese water.
They are funny but I chose not to base the math argument on an obvious parody.
I find it interesting that others have used math to show the flaws in evolution. Check out this website (http://www.ukapologetics.net/08/evolutionandmath.htm)
Ms. USA has always been an airhead competition where contestants try not to say anything that might offend anyone in order to win. Other than mocking them, which has been going on for decades, there’s not much to say.
@Daniel: I find it “interesting” that that others have misused math, as in your example, to try to confuse people about evolution.
Anyone curious about one a more reasoned discussion of the relationship of probability to evolution can see here http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob.html
Captain: the very idea that rejecting evolution is the inoffensive position is the whole problem. Understanding of science in America is at an all time post-WWII low and getting worse all the time.
Yes, Daniel, and somebody used math to prove the existence of God on youtube, too. Check it out. You won’t understand it (nor did the idiot who made the video), which, to people who believe in God, constitutes proof. On a side note, evolution is not a “belief.” It is a scientific principle that, for about 150 years has been fundamental to the biological sciences. It has been demonstrated time and again by the fossil record, and it has been recreated in actual real life in the lab with micro-organisms that reproduce very rapidly, so odds has nothing to do with it. What were the odds that a redneck, racist culture that doesn’t understand a basic scientific principle would elect a man whom most of them would assume is inferior based on a popular misrepresentation of Darwinism that anti-evolutionists ironically have taken as proof that white people are better than everyone else? They also don’t understand enough genetics to know that homo-sapiens are only about 5% better than chimpanzees. I looked at that website, and I thought maybe I could make up some numbers just as easily. The chances that Daniel has a college degree or has read anything other than poorly constructed fear-mongering cult propaganda in the past several years is 1 in 1024. What are the odds that an invisible magic man that nobody can really see created the world? I don’t care; it’s absurd and unprovable and therefore probably BS.
Yes Gaf – you said everything I’d like to say, only better. The way the real Miss America candidates kept talking about evolution being a “belief” just drove me crazy. Although I think perhaps if a course on the religions of the world were taught, these non-critical thinkers could see that there are many, many theories of how mankind began, all of them unscientific and pretty strange.
The thing I find the most disturbing is the misinterpretation of the word theory. There is no such thing as proving something right in science only disproving what we expect. A well tested theory is as close to truth as we can get in science there is no other side to the story. However in response to some of the more rude comments since science can only be disproven there is no reason to use the fact that it is possible to test it as opposed to religion which has to be taken on faith be a reason to insult others. Technically newton was wrong or we wouldn’t need Einstein or quantum mechanics yet I would never insult his or any other belief system or well founded theories.
PS: I teach high school science.
Isaac Asimov summed it up pretty well:
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
Gravity’s just a theory too…
…maybe schools should be throwing the anklebiters off buildings to let them make up their own minds on the subject?
Science flies mankind to the stars – Religion flies them into buildings.
Jeff, that last line was fantastic!
But I have to say, it seems that Newton was correct until you reach the speed of light then Einstein’s theory takes over.