Posted on 05/30/2002 7:40:53 AM PDT by Gladwin
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Two House Republicans are citing landmark education reform legislation in pressing for the adoption of a school science curriculum in their home state of Ohio that includes the teaching of an alternative to evolution.
In what both sides of the debate say is the first attempt of its kind, Reps. John A. Boehner and Steve Chabot have urged the Ohio Board of Education to consider the language in a conference report that accompanied the major education law enacted earlier this year.....
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Check this out then come back and we can talk about it. It seems that horses were pleatifull anough to leave a pretty good trail.
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Absolutely not! This is how it's supposed to work. Everyone tries to figure out how things work. The Greeks did the best they could with the information available to them, and created a whole yearbook of strange, interesting characters who, when the weren't sleeping around or killing each other, made sure that the sun rose in the morning, and the seasons arrived on time, and the dead made it to where they were supposed to go.
As people discovered that some of this stuff worked on it's own, Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, Mr. Quantum, humans as a whole got a better, clearer, more accurate picture of How Things Work.
The stuff that didn't work out so well -- phrenology, geocentric solar models, the XFL, space ether, the Edsel -- were discarded. If science doesn't change to accomodate new discoveries and new technologies, then we may as well chuck our computers and go back to living in caves and hitting each other with rocks.
Not to be glib, but science itself evolves, as it should. For it NOT to do so would be madness.
Get a life--soul--philosophy---foundation!
What it has to do with "Teaching Alternative To Evolution Backed" is a bit hard to figure out, but one step at a time is progress.
Very good, f.Christian. I applaud you.
EBUCK
If there ever were an argument for intelligent design this aint it!!!
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(raving evo mode off)
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Sorry, no. Science is not faith. Science is based on empirical observation, not the other way 'round. Likewise, do our wishes and beliefs not dictate the nature of reality. Were it otherwise I would be in a hot-tub with Natasha Henstridge, Geena Davis and Bridgette Wilson right about now, but sadly, such is not to be.
Get a life--soul--philosophy---foundation!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled delusions.
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