December 23, 2005
FOUR FOR FRIDAY
Q1 -- Work: Would you be willing to go on strike for better wages, benefits, and/or working conditions?
Q2 -- Celebrity: If you were reborn the child of a celebrity, who would you choose to be your celebrity parent(s)?
Q3 -- Books: When you first start to read one, do you skip over the Foreword and/or Introduction, or do you read the book from cover to cover, Foreword and Introduction included?
Q4 -- Schools: Earlier this week, a federal judge in Pennsylvania struck down efforts to teach what's called "intelligent design" in one of the state's public school districts. Considered a major blow to those who seek new ways to bring religion into public schools, intelligent design says, fundamentally, that some systems of nature are so complex, they must be the result of a higher power. In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Federal District Judge John Jones, a Bush appointee, ruled that while the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point, it should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions. How do you feel about intelligent design being taught in public schools... should it be allowed, or do you feel the Pennsylvania ruling should be applied to all public schools in the U.S. and elsewhere?
Posted by Mikal at December 23, 2005 12:01 AM
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Q1) Yes, especially if it came to losing benefits and paid leave.
Q2) No.
Q3) I read the actual book first, and then go back and read any forward or introduction. I don't like someone else's opinions clouding my reading, or viewing, for that matter.
Q4) Intelligent Design=Creationism. It belongs in a philosophy or religion class, not a class that should only be studying empirical science.
Q1 ñ Work: I donít know, I believe in the workers right to strike, but I also believe that you can vote with your feet and leave the company. I think that the transit workers should not have gone out on strike, 1) It was illegal and 2) it inconvenienced millions of people.
Workers in general are having their health insurance and pensions cut, it is a malaise that I donít see a way of turning around. I am worried about my retirement in three years, will I retire only to find out that the company cut my health insurance?
Q2 - Celebrity: I wouldnít want to be born of celebrity parents; I think that their children have nothing but trouble when growing up.
Q3 ñ Books: I read the Foreword and/or Introduction most of the time.
Q4 - Schools: I think that the judge was right, it is just another way that the religious right is trying to sneak their creationist believes in.
mine are posted - happy holidays!
1. As the grandaughter of two coal miners, I say hell yah!
2. I'd like to be Martha Stweart's duaghter. We'd rake in the bucks at school bake sales
3. If I'm trying to impress myself, I read the Foreward adn Introduction. If I'm pretty sure that I'm not watching, I skip it.
4. I'm naming my next child Judge John Jones 3d.
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