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.
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Do you wanna play?
Why is it easier to distort what evolution says as opposed to what the theory of gravity says? I thought both are on an equal level from the standpoint of science.
Not now. I've got some work prep I've been avoiding. Also see my prior post. If it's fast, I'm probably useless.
Thanks. Have a good evening.
Charles Lyell. Saw his grave in Westminster Abbey last week. Darwin is there too.
I know that feeling of work avoidance. Hope you get it finished. Thanks for the puns earlier. They were funny. My work and especially my volunteer work is stressful at times, so it is great to laugh so hard. Thanks.
Your question has a mistake in it.
Who says "God" screwed up?
The idea is that humanity chose depravity. God came to fix it.
So, with that correction, Yes, God is not a man that He can do wrong, and God will do what is right with creation when it gets out of line.
Your life and mine, for example, are His to end if He deems it necessary.
Perhaps you think Truman was wrong to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
No one cares!
What does the GREEK say?
Ah... but you'll others: nice.
You musta missed the 'fountains of the deep' part.
You're funny.
I didn't know you were a YECer fester.
You haven't demonstrated any knowledge or understanding of the theory of evolution or the mechanisms behind it. I also would not take your word on the theory of relativity or the fundamentals of differential equations until you displayed to me you had some expertise in those areas.
Until then I will stick to the interpretations of those who understand the mechanisms of natural selection and understand what the theory of evolution says and who know the natural evidence and can explain it.
When you've cooked up an alternative theory that explains the natural record without relying upon mendacious supernatural interference, let me know.
The idea is that humanity chose depravity. God came to fix it.
Why did an omnipotent and omniscient God create human beings he knew would chose, as you put it, depravity?
My profile page says as much, and at some length. Now you know.
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