Creationists suffer another legal defeat

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Blogs / Bad Astronomy

Some good news from Texas! Yeehaw!
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 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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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/23/creationists-suffer-another-legal-defeat/

[Dogtown]

1. K&R n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. LOL

[AllyCat]

3. maundering--there is a word I have to look up

That is, if these people haven't succeeded in banning the dictionary.

[hootinholler]

6. Me too...

Main Entry: maun·der
Pronunciation: \ˈmȯn-dər, ˈmän-\
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): maun·dered; maun·der·ing \-d(ə-)riŋ\
Etymology: probably imitative
Date: 1621

1 chiefly British : grumble
2 : to wander slowly and idly
3 : to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly

Great vocabulary builder.

-Hoot

[Warpy]

4. Ouch! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

The only mystery to me is why these poor saps want to call themselves scientists. They could more easily offer a doctor of divinity/creationism as a qualification to mislead children in megachurches, the audience captive and receptive to such a ridiculous message. The more sensible larger public is always going to be hostile to it on one level or another.

I mean, science is hard, people, and you have to be able to do math to do any of it, something the creationists like to skip.

I do love that a Texas judge handed their butts to them on this one. How they managed to flummox people in California is beyond me. It must've been during Reagan's terms as governor.

[Raster]

5. They want to call themselves scientists to lend an air of credibility.

The two key words: "lend" and "air". Need I say more?