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.
But the WORLD needs the benefit of our superior intellect and reasoning, and FR is the best place to display it!
--EvoDude
I'm willing to post to people who are actively making fools of themselves. It is somewhat stunning to find creationists who don't understand elementary sex.
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I think you mention this for Junior....
Yet they want to determine what is and isn't science.
Dark ages here we come...
RANDOM?
It's obvious that you, too, don't read them.
Your loss.
But, no doubt, one real cool dude!! ;^)
If all male humans are descended from Noah, where did the variation come from? The Y chromosome is the clearest and most unambiguous indicator of lineage. Except for mutations, which are rare, there are no changes or recombinations from father to son. Even the mutations are helpful in tracing linege, since they are inherited.
Not knowing this is one of the downsides of skipping sex-ed.
He left out the fact that just maybe, one of them is TRUE!
Now go read my home page.....
They have no relevance to science or evolution.
It doesn’t matter what other people think or feel or say.
Paranoia will destroy ya.
Missing is his first name I believe.
Noah or Proto-ape/man, the Y thing should have the same result; right?
beano is good for that condition
"Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!"
That's because, unlike you Evo's, WE waited 'til HIGH-SCHOOL!
Maybe ...
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