Posted on 08/04/2010 9:42:04 PM PDT by neverdem
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law last year an act that sets parameters for teachers who introduce scientific supplements on Darwinian evolution, global warming, human cloning and other controversial subjects. The state's Science Education Act encourages "open and objective discussion of scientific theories being studied." It specifically prohibits religious instruction or interpretations (or irreligious interpretations, for that matter). The law is simple, reasonable and avoids constitutional and scientific mistakes that afflicted earlier laws in Louisiana and elsewhere.
But in Livingston Parish, east of Baton Rouge, some enthusiasts for a literal Biblical account of creation decided that the new law gives them authority to teach creationism -- the account from Genesis. That view clearly violates the law and also the U.S. Constitution as it long has been interpreted. Reported statements from Livingston school board member David Tate were so fallacious and confrontational that they could have been scripted by his supposed adversaries if they were looking for ways to make him look bad.
"We just sit up here and let them teach evolution," Tate orated, "and not take a stand about creationism. To me, how come we don't look into this as people who are strong Christians and see what we can do to teach creationism in schools. We sit back and let the government tell us what to do. We don't pray to the ACLU and all them people: we pray to God."
Tate's fulminations are not characteristic of the educators and legislators who passed the new Louisiana law, but you can be sure that the Darwinist opponents of the law will try to make them sound representative. The same thing happened in Dover, Pennsylvania, in 2005 when school board members decided to grab onto the phrase (not the reality) of "intelligent design" to promote religious doctrine....
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Jindal should be president.
Studies of their brain matter conclusively proves that evolutionists are descended from monkeys. The rest of us were created in God’s image.
The bible does speak of two seeds!
According to the Constitution, the federal government has no authority over education.
That’s what the judge said today too. Marriage is between two men, two seeds.
And that’s what happens in a society after government replaces God.
They have found brain matter in the skulls of Bible literalists? I doubt that.
John Gato, an acknowledged expert, says that a kid would basically be better off being raised in the jungle by chimpanzees like Tarzan than attending many of our public schools.
Anatomically, we all have brain matter in fairly equal amounts, but I would’ve thought a more scientific type should already know that.
;-/
yikes ... s/b
The inimitable Science Made Stupid suggests a similar compromise, which is perhaps a little more compromising:
President only if he is a natural born citizen.
> They have found brain matter in the skulls of Bible
> literalists? I doubt that.
Ad hominem.
The refuge of an ideologue with a bankrupt narrative.
I’m a Bible Literalist, and the fact that I’m an engineer, and am writing this, is evidence that I have, not just brain matter, but well-connected brain matter.
However, like many evolutionists, you wish to interpret the plain evidence to suit your fainciful ideology, even framing it as an attempt at humor, however lame and ignorant.
Tarzan was a chimpanzee?
RAISED by chimpanzees...
Where public school districts have been willing to stick to scientific evidence for and against Darwinian theory, and ignore religious implications in the classroom, Darwinian opponents have not sued, let alone sued successfully.
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To clear the air of Darwinist cant and enter a debate on the actual evidence, no religious assertions are necessary or desirable. Obviously, there may be religious implications to repudiation of Darwinism, just as there may be irreligious implications to the theory itself. Plainly, emotions on all sides are stirred up by those implications. But science is not supposed to be about religious implications, but about the evidence; and scientific evidence, though illuminating, can only take one so far.
In other words, Render to Caesar evidence, in particular here, scientific evidence. When conservatives argue that scientific evidence supports normal climatic variation, but it does not support evolution, they come out looking like hypocrites or worse looking like "know nothings."
There's no evidence that any recent climate change is the result of anything besides natural variability, yet some evangelicals embrace the precautionary principle to support belief in anthropogenic global warming, the left's latest religion, only because of the Biblical command to be "good stewards."
While it's hard to argue that something can come from nothing, i.e. there is and was no Creator, and the Big Bang just happened for no reason, appeals to faith, religion, scripture, theology, metaphysics, etc. can yield bizarre results that negate common sense.
There's plenty of documented medical and psychiatric pathology associated with homosexuality, yet there's yesterday's decision supporting homosexual marriage in the federal district court striking Proposition Eight's ban on it in California.
Historical evidence documents that Muslims and Africans initially traded the vast majority of African slaves who were sent to the Americas, and Islam still allows slavery, yet so many African-Americans embrace Islam. Go figure. Let's stick with evidence, IMHO.
LOL! Antievolutionists, including figures like the author, who founded the Discovery Institute, intentionally create a popular movement, avoiding normal scientific review for their supposedly scientific views, and then get all upset when their popular followers give away the game.
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