Posted on 03/05/2006 10:14:04 AM PST by OrthodoxPresbyterian
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06HB/HB2107_int.rtf
"Every public school teacher in the State of Oklahoma, shall have the affirmative right and freedom to present scientific information pertaining to the full range of scientific views in any curricula or course of learning.... The rights and privileges contained in the Academic Freedom Act apply when topics are taught that may generate controversy, such as biological or chemical origins of life." (etc.)
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All those against evolution - raise your tails ant throw a coconut at the vote counter. 77 coconuts.
Teaching the full range of scientific views on evolution will delay high school graduation by half a dozen years.
I guess they anticipate teaching something compatible with Genesis, but they will have to dig pretty deep to find peer-reviewed publications giving them what they really want.
Even the ID advocates accept common descent, so what do these guys expect to be taught as an alternative?
What process or mechanism required by evolution has not been observed?
Um... the origin.
Macroevolution is not a process; it is the result of an accumulation of changes. Evolution does not involve any large changes from one generation to another. No parent ever gives birth to a child of a different species. That is Hollywood evolution. No biologist in the last century has suggested such a thing happens.
Um... that's abiogenesis, not evolution.
They better watch out! A federal judge has decided there is NO FREEDOM for local school districts to set curriculum.
Origin of what? The origin of life is not addressed by evolution.
But let me ask a question. Where are you going to go with this argment when molecular biology eventually presents a naturalistic scenerio for biogenesis?
I don't expect to live long enough to see this, but your children might. How are you preparing them for advances in science?
I'll ask you the same question. How are you preparing your children for advances in science?
It seems rather risky to say that molecular biology will never understand biogenesis. What will happen to the faith of your children or grandchildren when things you say are impossible become routine?
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"EVOLUTION" is a proven thing. Just ask some of the people here on FR...who will gladly point out that those who ask questions....who have some doubt about "EVOLUTION"....are really stupid.
redrock
Teachers are unskilled in their art, classrooms have little discipline, and subjects such as ebonics, new math, and phonetic spelling have taken over. The teacher's unions love this as they get more tax money and better salaries and benefits.
Perhaps you'd like to state the number. Preferably as a percentage of bologists.
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