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.
--"No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude"--(Too well known to need reference.)
Global genocide would entail wiping out all human flesh. The account of the flood indicates otherwise.
"Do you believe all foreknowledge is causative? If I "know" you are going to see the sun tomorrow does that mean I caused you to see the sun?"
No. But you didn't allegedly create me. And as far as I know, you aren't omniscient.
"Global genocide would entail wiping out all human flesh. The account of the flood indicates otherwise."
Leaving 8 people alive is close enough. Not to mention the needless slaughter of animals and plants that were not capable of sin.
Don't worry. I'll just watch TV on mute and hang out at the mall. ;)
Perhaps an Old Man with a large boat.
Yeah I suppose there's a limit to how much of that sort of thing you can have and still be functional.
If foreknowledge is not necessarily causative, then why use it to accuse your "alleged maker" of a mistake?
Excellent!
You can believe anything you want, but you can't make the facts fit your imagination.
A "Time to crash" placemarker.
Close enough? Without at least two of those 8 you would never have been born. Maybe you would prefer "life" as an automaton. Maybe it would be better if you had never been born.
Pithy, to be sure. I'm sure you are capable of applying those words to yourself.
The same thing is required with algebra; people gripe about that too.
"If foreknowledge is not necessarily causative, then why use it to accuse your "alleged maker" of a mistake?"
1) The *as far as I know* was from me saying *as far as I know, you aren't omniscient*. Your quoting it here is moronic.
2) The omniscience that is attributed to God would also mean that He knew what people would do when He created them. In this case, according to the story, God IS the cause of our nature, and the one who is culpable for our transgressions, since he knew what we would do before he created us.
But being outside of time, it was too late. The whole sorry sage unfolds in a flash, like the pilot of a bad TV drama, cancelled before it is even filmed. All on a dark and stormy night before the dawn of the first day.
Time to check out of here.
Are you prepared mathematically to back up this assertion? Let's do the math.
If the flood story is true, it makes the worst jokes about Arkansas inbreeding look tame.
First of all there were 8 people who were products of a world history of nearly a thousand years. Do you really think they were all directly related? Secondly, even if it were only Adam and Eve, the genetic concentration from the first humans would eliminate fears that we currently associate with inbreeding. To this day there are remarkable manifestations of genetic material amidst humans, on both the positive and negative side.
I am happy to be here.
I am happy you are here, too.
There was a young man who said: "Damn!
It is borne upon me that I am
An engine that moves
In pre-determinate grooves
I'm not even a bus; I'm a tram!"
(Can't remember the author.)
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