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.
Yes, that's the spirit!
"They died according to their sinfulness"
"And with strange eons even death may die."
Kind of scary. I think I'd rather take the point system for sinfulness. LOL!
Ehh? Ammonites are the fruit of the sin of incest? That can't be correct, they're extinct and incest still happens.
Oh, another pun, but this time a supremely obvious one. *bashes head against wall* I think it's past my bedtime.
Glad you like it.
I had to bough out on the vegetarian puns; folk have been raisin the level beyond my ability to keep up.
You're just wineing about sour grapes.
There's definitely a certain mindset required for punning around. LOL! Sometimes it just flows. Other times, nothing. No inspiration at all.
The al gore rhythm took the cake. I really thought you were talking politics. LOL! And of course, big words always throw me for a loop. ;)
You're just wineing about sour grapes.
Soybean doin' puns, have ya? But its lentil and I haven't shaved. Night all.
Don't forget: Time flies like an arrow.... Fruit flies like a banana...
Apple be back.
A maize-ing comment! Did you ear it through the grapevine?
"big words always throw me for a loop..."
Cantaloupe be a good idea sometimes?
(thanks for setting that one up)
I' m not as religous as some of my friends. Can you tell me how long it's Lentil?
Cantaloup ever be a square?... LOL!
However, the voices in my head keep telling me not to listen to the voices in my head. I don't know if I should listen to them or not.
Therefore, you cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. (Mark Twain)
I have decided not to post this.
Huh? LOL! pose as this?
Attenuate - You had a very late breakfast this morning.
No problem at all, b_sharp! It happens to all of us I reckon.
ROFL.
Everyone can see that the fossil record supports a global flood about 4000 years ago. Particularly if you avoid examining any rocks at all, and just get all of your geological specimens from the Bible.
The "running for higher ground" explanation for sorting is also particularly excellent. Its curious that the plantlife that more closely resembles modern plantlife also appears to have been better at running for higher ground.
1500 Yeah Baby!
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