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Utah House kills evolution bill
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ^
| 28 February 2006
| JENNIFER DOBNER
Posted on 02/28/2006 4:05:45 AM PST by PatrickHenry
House lawmakers scuttled a bill that would have required public school students to be told that evolution is not empirically proven - the latest setback for critics of evolution.
The bill's sponsor, Republican state Sen. Chris Buttars, had said it was time to rein in teachers who were teaching that man descended from apes and rattling the faith of students. The Senate earlier passed the measure 16-12.
But the bill failed in the House on a 28-46 vote Monday. The bill would have required teachers to tell students that evolution is not a fact and the state doesn't endorse the theory.
Rep. Scott Wyatt, a Republican, said he feared passing the bill would force the state to then address hundreds of other scientific theories - "from Quantum physics to Freud" - in the same manner.
"I would leave you with two questions," Wyatt said. "If we decide to weigh in on this part, are we going to begin weighing in on all the others and are we the correct body to do that?" |
Buttars said he didn't believe the defeat means that most House members think Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is correct.
"I don't believe that anybody in there really wants their kids to be taught that their great-grandfather was an ape," Buttars said. |
The vote represents the latest loss for critics of evolution. In December, a federal judge barred the school system in Dover, Pa., from teaching intelligent design alongside evolution in high school biology classes.
Also last year, a federal judge ordered the school system in suburban Atlanta's Cobb County to remove from biology textbooks stickers that called evolution a theory, not a fact.
Earlier this year, a rural California school district canceled an elective philosophy course on intelligent design and agreed never to promote the topic in class again.
But critics of evolution got a boost in Kansas in November when the state Board of Education adopted new science teaching standards that treat evolution as a flawed theory, defying the view of science groups.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: biofraud; crevolist; scienceeducation
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To: ml1954
I look forward to the OD ID debate. Cab Calloway lyrics?
1,401
posted on
03/03/2006 4:54:48 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Virginia-American
...strong selection ...Well THIS means that it was steered in a certain direction!
1,402
posted on
03/03/2006 4:59:58 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Elsie
No, your post said:
"To: From many - one.
A may be wrong: God favors B or God could care less about B
B may be wrong: God favors A or God could care less about A
Isn't this ALSO possible?
JohnnyAppleseedDidit placemark
1,404
posted on
03/03/2006 5:09:07 AM PST
by
dread78645
(Intelligent Design. It causes people to misspeak)
To: Senator Bedfellow
The implication that all flies are the same is rather interesting, as well.
A biologist, a statistician, a mathematician and a computer scientist are on a photo-safari in africa. They drive out on the savannah in their jeep, stop and scout the horizon with their binoculars.
The biologist: "How interesting! There's a herd of zebras! And there, in the middle : A white zebra! It's fantastic! There are white zebra's! We'll be famous!"
The statistician: "It's not significant. We only know there's one white zebra."
The mathematician: "Actually, we only know there exists a zebra, which is white on one side."
The computer scientist: "Oh, no! A special case!"
1,405
posted on
03/03/2006 5:10:21 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: P-Marlowe
I suspect that if you lock any species in a jar for 49 generations there will be some who tend to exhibit some deviant sexual attitudes. HMMmmm....
This doesn't look GOOD for folks who spend so much time on these threads; either!
1,406
posted on
03/03/2006 5:12:02 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: js1138
And neither need a bicycle!
1,407
posted on
03/03/2006 5:12:36 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Junior
There are more than one species of fly...
"Help MEEeee....."
1,408
posted on
03/03/2006 5:13:58 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: b_sharp
A single individual may be the first to experience a mutation but ...MAY???
WILL!
1,409
posted on
03/03/2006 5:15:28 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: b_sharp
Why do you insist on using a single fact (that fossils are found world wide) as an independent verification of a Biblical flood . . . Because a global flood would produce as much, namely a record of death in sedimentary rock distributed throughout the globe. You do not know that the strata demonstrate chronological sequences, but assume all processes that produced the fossil record took place at the same rate, and in the same way, as those processes are taking place today. Not a bad assumption, but not necessarily a correct one either.
To: P-Marlowe
What Muslim bombers hope to get 72 of!
What WE HOPE Muslim bombers get 72 of!
1,411
posted on
03/03/2006 5:18:09 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: P-Marlowe
When you put flies in a jar and in 400 generations you have a jar full of mosquitoes, then you might have a point about the possibility of macro evolution taking place.
Groan!
1,412
posted on
03/03/2006 5:20:16 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Quark2005
Ah, but what if Mrs. Noah had been fooling around?"Be fruitful and multiply" was STILL in effect!
1,413
posted on
03/03/2006 5:21:15 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: b_sharp
There should be a whole morass of different species laid down wile nilly all over the globe with little stratification.Bone deposits have been found that indicate mixes of animals that under normal circumstance would not be found in each other's company; their bones being so mixed up as to warrant the speculation that a catastrophic occurence caused their demise. Such deposits may yet be found in polar regions. If they are, I'm sure those who take the biblical texts for what they say and mean will use such a discovery as evidence to support a global flood, while those who consider the biblical texts to be mere fairly tales or products of human invention will dismiss them as an anomaly, or perhaps the product of billions of years of glacial activity or some such.
To: phantomworker
No, it's an ipsilateral al gore rhythm.
To: Elsie
Be fruitfly in multiples placemarker.
To: phantomworker
The line outside the theater showing BrokeBack Moutain...
1,417
posted on
03/03/2006 5:26:02 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: phantomworker; b_sharp; dread78645
He was drunk-naked in his tent.Seems that a LOT of that has happened!
Genesis 19
29. So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
30. Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
31. One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth.
32. Let's get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father."
33. That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
34. The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I lay with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father."
35. So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
36. So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.
37. The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab ; he is the father of the Moabites of today.
38. The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi ; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.
1,418
posted on
03/03/2006 5:33:10 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: PatrickHenry
This is driving me nuts.
Like the post above this.....
ACTS 26:24
At this point Festus interrupted Paul's defense. "You are out of your mind, Paul!" he shouted. "Your great learning is driving you insane."
1,419
posted on
03/03/2006 5:36:15 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: From many - one.
No, your post said: Oh... THAT one!
I was refering to my FIRST input on Lincoln; sorry.
1,420
posted on
03/03/2006 5:37:53 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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