“The Institute for Creation Research — one of the biggest nonsense-peddlers in the 6000 year history of the world — was handed a nice defeat this week. That link to the National Center for Science Education (the good guys) has all the info you need, but to summarize: the ICR moved from California to Texas. In the previous state, for reasons beyond understanding, they were able to grant Master’s degrees in their graduate school. But Texas didn’t recognize their accreditation, so they filed to get it approved.
Not so surprisingly, scientists and educators rose in protest, and in 2008 the Texas Higher Education Coordination Board — the organization that grants accreditation — denied the ICR. The creationists appealed. In the meantime, they also tried to extend their ability to grant degrees temporarily while the lawsuit continued. What happened this week is that the extension as denied.
And I mean denied. Check out what the court said:
It appears that although the Court has twice required Plaintiff [the ICR] to re-plead and set forth a short and plain statement of the relief requested, Plaintiff is entirely unable to file a complaint which is not overly verbose, disjointed, incoherent, maundering, and full of irrelevant information.”
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Now usa needs to ban it from being taught at school too!
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Well at least Texas isn’t all religion and Bush
I feel like I should say something more mature, but…
Ooooh, BURN!
Seems the creationtards physically cannot make an argument without quoting huge passages from there book of fairytale’s. As if the mere presence of the WORD negates any argument. Not in this guys courtroom morons!
Perhaps they could move into degrees in things like solar power, wind energy or efficient manufacturing. Things that might be of use to the Texans.
Creationism is fundamentally a political belief rather than a scientific hypothesis. It can’t make any predictions from evidence and in fact rejects attempts to change it through evidence-based observation. It is no surprise that they cannot justify their political position as a degree-awarding body. To do so would be to demonstrate the veracity of Creationism, which would also have to include all of the evidence collected for Evolution and the Modern Synthesis. The constantly amazing thing about Humanity to me is the diversity of viewpoints that can be taken from the same dataset, available to all, to whit – the Universe.
They’re not dead yet – the buggers are like Weebles or fairground ducks. You knock them down and they just stand right back up again.
i’m shocked that texas did something so sensible!
Yep. Can’t wait till the world (as a whole) gets to a point where it looks at Yahweh (or Jehovah) as a old school mythological belief. Just like we do with Zeus, Thor, Wotan, Mithra, etc! Only then can we drop the irrational non-sense we keep getting from Christianity, Judaism and Islam, like an annoying itch behind the ear that won’t go away
This is like that “Earthonomics” degree from Doctor Who.
And did “plaintiff” swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth??? And was it an oath made with oh, I don’t know, a bible perhaps?
In the words of a family guy character “iironyyyyyyyyyyyyy”
somebody throw some fossils at them
Unbelievable that these idiots can still make it to court in the 21th century.
Knackers – I was hoping for an easy masters degree. Cheers science, you git.