"The Fallacy of the Argument From Incredulity" Snark
“My wonder button is being pushed all the time.†― Carl Sagan
Anyone of faith who points out the wonders surrounding us as powerful, indeed incontrovertible evidence of our Creator is invariably snarked by the Godless Left (the counterpart to "the Religious Right," of course). "You're simply ignorant of science! That's the argument from incredulity, ha ha ha". This is a favorite of Richard Dawkins.
Was astronomer, professor, author Carl Sagan likewise ignorant of science? Of course not. He was one of them, a liberal agnostic, whose memorial service was ironically held at St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City.
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The Failure of Science Educators
Recent opinion polls show that 25-50% of adult Americans do not know that the Earth goes around the Sun and takes a year to do it.†- Carl Sagan, Carl Sagan's Universe, page 146
Public education is a socialist monopoly, a real one. - The Late Milton Friedman
"The education of all children from the moment they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions, at state expense." - Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
November, 2017 A YouGov survey found that more millennials would rather live in a socialist (44%) or communist (7%) country than a capitalist one (42%). America and our once cherished ideals are doomed.
“In 1950, we spent (in 1989 dollars) $1,333 per student. In 1989 we spent $4931. As John Silber, the President of Boston University, has written, ‘It is troubling that this nearly fourfold increase in real spending has brought no improvement. It is scandalous that it has not prevented substantial decline.’ †– William J. Bennett, former Secretary of Education, in The De-Valuing of America