Congress really needs to send some money for biology in schools

[ck4829]

I was in a conversation with a person, and he said that "insects are not animals!"

For about 15 seconds, I didn't know what to say.

How do you respond to something like this? What's this say about our nation's knowledge of, well, animals?

[RC]

1. My question back would be, "What are they then?"

The same basic question I ask when a religious nut say we humans are not animals. They usually don't have a coherent answer.

[DesertFlower]

2. wow. i had to study biology

in my freshman year of high school. we had a lab where we dissected a grasshoper and a frog. it made me ill. lol

[SPedigrees]

3. I found dissection, and all of biology studies, fascinating.

Only my lack of aptitude for mathemathics kept me from a career in science.

[dysfunctional press]

4. i'd like to see them spend a lot more time/money on CIVICS education...

if people had even a rudimentary understanding of how our society works(or at least how it's actually supposed )to, alot of the other problems and shortcomings might actually be able to be solved intelligently and effectively.

[SPedigrees]

5. Refer them to definition 1 at merriam-webster.com.

1: any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and often many of the single-celled ones (as protozoans) that typically differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis, in requiring more complex food materials (as proteins), in being organized to a greater degree of complexity, and in having the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor responses to stimulation

2 a: one of the lower animals as distinguished from human beings b: mammal ; broadly : vertebrate

On reflection, Congress needs to throw more money at all areas of education including English grammar, spelling, vocabulary, etc

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. One of my favorite quotes.

The Church says the Earth is Flat, but I have seen the Shadow on the Moon, and it is Round;
and I have more Faith in a Shadow on the Moon than in the Church.

---Ferdinand Magellan