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.
manuscripts, archaeology, fulfilled prophecy and statistics
lol, official brew of the evo cheerleading squad
Such springs exist in the same sense that invisible pink unicorns exist.
As I say, I have nothing against believing in miracles as long as you don't make false statements about the physical world.
Very punny! Thanks!
I guess you're just a sucker for this stuff then?
In order to help the good Professor make his ultimate point (that Mark's report is inaccurate), you are going to have to, at least, answer those two questions.
In addition to that you will have to provide evidence that Jesus didn't go from Tyre, to Sidon, by the Sea of Galilee to the region/district/boundary of Decapolis as Mark said.
Nice map though.
Are there not huge/massive under ground lakes?
And how do you know that this is a false statement (springs of the deep bursting forth) about the physical world?
manuscripts, archaeology, fulfilled prophecy and statistics
Sounds like the same things Muslims say about the Koran.
Decapolis is a huge area, with some of it bordering near the Sea of Galilee...How are you going to do that?
Do you know exactly where Jesus was in the region/district/border of Decapolis?
Funny...I've never heard a Muslim say the same things (I wouldn't debate the wrong Muslim though...you may win the argument but come up missing certain life sustaining body parts via the edge of a dull knife.)
Have you ever done an actual comparitive analysis?
Or is that dismissive as quick and casual as it appears?
Looks like it.
It does seem odd that evolution, as opposed to other notions, has lately been singled out for special treatment by legislatures. Why is that? Why isn't the general public clamoring against teaching the theory of gravity as "just a theory?"
Mark is careful to tell us this took place in the area called the Decapolis, the ten Greek cities on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee. And he points out that Jesus went into this region in a rather strange way. Instead of coming directly back into Galilee, he left Tyre and Sidon and went by a northern route through what is presently the country of Syria, and continued down the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee into the southern part of that region. It would be very much like starting out for Los Angeles from San Francisco, but going by way of Reno and Las Vegas. Many scholars feel that this journey took about eight months, so that he spent a long time in the Gentile regions ministering to those who were not Jews.
For Christians, those who have ears to hear, in the middle of this section is the pericope re the Syrophenician woman, thus the geography.
That's almost as funny as the puns.
Maybe you need to attach a dictionary to some of the posts and the trolls will go away.
One entry found for bloviate.
Function: intransitive verb
: to speak or write verbosely and windily - blo·vi·a·tion /"blO-vE-'A-sh&n/ noun
Finally, something well-written from the troll. And if his name's Ray C. Stedman, it's not even plagiarism.
It's commentary, but thanks for the link.
Better to have a whale of a good time than whale on each other and say you're anemone of mine.
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