[PatrickHenry]

Please remember to use moderator-compliant FReepSpeak^tm. We now say "frequently-repeated error," sometimes called (after the poster has received numerous corrections) a "compulsively repeated error" instead of the harsher term. Everyone be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

Evolution Ping The List-O-Links

A conservative, pro-evolution science list, now with over 350 names. See the list's explanation, then FReepmail to be added or dropped. To assist beginners: But it's "just a theory", Evo-Troll's Toolkit, and How to argue against a scientific theory.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"I don't believe that anybody in there really wants their kids to be taught that their great-grandfather was an ape," Buttars said.

And if they actually learned the Theory of Evolution, they wouldn't. But please don't let small details like facts get in the way of political hyperbole.

[saganite]

Looks like some legislators have a little common sense after all. Good for them.

[ClearCase_guy]

The bill would have required teachers to tell students that evolution is not a fact

That much is true. The notion that Evolution has been "proven" is what we might call a "frequently-repeated error".

[ohhhh]

Is it any wonder that the school systems are unable to teach children anymore. The athiest materialist secular agenda destroys all and the children suffer the most; evolution being the religion of the fools who will be judged by God in Christ Jesus. Methinks there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in that day.

[ahayes]

What do we use the term "frequently-repeated error" in lieu of? I don't want to accidentally not substitute when I should.

[wolfcreek]

I don't want our children to be taught unproven scientific theory but, I also don't want them to grow up as narrow minded dumb asses. There has to be a better way to approach this.

[HiTech RedNeck]

You want to talk trash, go to DU

[DoctorMichael]

".........Utah House kills evolution Anti-Evolution/Pro-Creationist bill.........."

Thank God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VadeRetro]

Silly Buttars! It wasn't his great-grandfather, it was his great-grandfather's great-grandfather's great-grandfather that was the ape.

[wallcrawlr]

ping

Revelation 4:11Intelligent Design
See my profile for info

[shuckmaster]

"I don't believe that anybody in there really wants their kids to be taught that their great-grandfather was an ape," Buttars said.

My great grandfather was a Confederate soldier and I say that with pride!

[wallcrawlr]

Isnt it interesting that evolution is discussed quite a bit in the PHILOSOPHY section of the forum.

Kind of ironic...

[Doctor Stochastic]

"I don't believe that anybody in there really wants their kids to be taught that their great-grandfather was an ape," Buttars said.

It's amazing what government officials will do to hide their own backgrounds.

[GrandEagle]

Check back later marker.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

So does Utah endorse string theory or not???

It's reprehensible that they should endorse string theory when it has so few successes, especially when the quantum gravity theorists have been making so much progress.

I'm appalled! /sarcasm

[redrock]

"Evolution" as such has NEVER been taught in Utah schools as a proven fact.

It has always been taught as "The Theory of Evolution".(..and it still is just a theory).

Yesterday, in a 5th grade class, I was conducting a class on Paleontology....when one of the 5th graders asked about 'Evolution' and (of course) Dinosaurs.

I merely explained that we 'think' that this is how the whole thing happened...but we have no way of actually proving it.(5th graders are excellent in demanding proof). We have all sorts of fossils...but nothing that actually shows a transistion from this animal to that new one. We have bones that are similar in Jurrasic animals to those in Creataceous animals.But nothing that shows a exact transistion from one animal to the next.

The 5th graders 'got it'. It's a theory (a good one..but still just a theory). I also suggested that they look at all other theories...that somewhere (and maybe one of them can figure it out) is a better theory.

Perhaps... insisting that only those who follow the 'Religion of Evolution' are right and all others are stupid is not the best way to go.

Evolution is just a theory....and...somewhere in the future...it may be proven wrong...or right.

redrock

[narby]

If ID/creationism can't even win in Utah, then it's dead.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

"I don't believe that anybody in there really wants their kids to be taught that their great-grandfather was an ape," Buttars said.

This guy gets the Darwin Award.

[Elsie]

"I don't believe that anybody in there really wants their kids to be taught that their great-grandfather was an ape," Buttars said.

Even those on C side of this argument know that the ToE says it's our COUSINS who are the apes; not ol'; Grandpa!