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.
Is there an echo in here?
I didn't bring judgment upon those people. That was God's call. So if you are going to call someone evil, you should redirect your invective to the right party.
I'm just not going to judge God for his decision. As the Bible says, his judgments are righteous. Mine aren't. Neither are yours. Get a grip.
Yeah, that's what I hear.
It used to be my tagline.
A creationist recently suggested (in apparent seriousness) that the oceans had a lot of water, so they might be the source.
If you read the context, it is clear that if he was not referencing an actual event (the flood), then he was a liar.
It's the same with Genesis, don't you agree?
I had a dog I had to put down a few months back. It had killed a few other animals. I then burned the body on a pyre.
Was that hiding evidence of a murder?
Or is it possible for me to put a dog down and it not be murder?
"If you read the context, it is clear that if he was not referencing an actual event (the flood), then he was a liar."
Or he was misquoted.
Who's to say I don't understand theology. You'd be surprised.
Keep your friends close, and your anemones closer.
I'd say we're tied.
"Or is it possible for me to put a dog down and it not be murder?"
Is that really the same as killing little children in a worldwide flood because you screwed up in your creation?
AmishDude needs this one.
Oh, yeah... and the other folks at the cafe knew there were 17 people aready in the house arguing about evolution.
Then his disciples were liars and Jesus was an idiot for picking them.
You can't have Jesus as Lord and not believe that Noah's flood was an actual event. Jesus didn't leave you that option.
Either he was a fraud or he was the Truth. Take your pick.
"Then his disciples were liars and Jesus was an idiot for picking them."
Or they were misquoted.
A creationist recently suggested (in apparent seriousness) that the oceans had a lot of water, so they might be the source.
Well, if the ID'er made water compressible for awhile....
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