Miss USA 2011: Should Schools Teach Evolution? … or Math?

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. (??)

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!

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.

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)

@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

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.

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.

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.’”

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.

It’s fun­ny, because real Miss Alas­ka said that she believes God put her on this earth for a rea­son- I pre­sume that rea­son was­n’t as insignif­i­cant as mod­el­ing, right? Pageant shows real­ly aren’t too impor­tant, prob­a­bly not some­thing an omni­scient, omnipresent deity should care about.