Posted on 10/07/2002 12:44:39 PM PDT by wallcrawlr
A suburban school board declares that evolution is just another theory
NEWT GINGRICH, while he was a Georgia congressman and then as speaker of the House, was known for his interest in scientific research. Some Georgians prefer a different approach. On September 26th the school board of Cobb County, in the north-western Atlanta suburbs, voted to amend existing policy to allow discussion of “disputed views of academic subjects”, specifically the idea that God created the universe in six days—Charles Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould and the rest of them be damned.
The vote came after a month of deliberation, at a meeting crowded with concerned parents. Some 2,000 of the county's residents signed a petition last spring to have the board put stickers on biology textbooks telling students that evolution is a theory, not a fact. “What they're trying to do is appease the religious right,” says Michael Manely, the lawyer representing a local parent who wanted the stickers removed.
The war between creationists and evolutionists had recently fallen quiet. In 1999, the Kansas state board of education dropped evolution from state examinations; but by 2001 the three most prominent anti-evolutionists had been voted out of office, and the decision quietly reversed. Of late, the Christian right has focused on other topics. But the anti-evolutionists' victory in Cobb County may stimulate similar-minded people elsewhere. In Ohio, the state board of education is under pressure to include “intelligent design”—the idea that the complexity of the universe proves the existence of the divine—when it issues a new science curriculum.
Cobb County's new policy argues that providing information on “disputed views” is “necessary for a balanced education” and will help to promote “acceptance of diversity of opinion”. A poll commissioned in 2000 by People for the American Way, a liberal-minded group, shows that many Americans think this way. Nearly half of the respondents believed that the theory of evolution had not yet been proved. And of those who believe in evolution—only a fifth wanted evolution taught alone—three-quarters liberally agreed that students should be presented with “all points of view” and “make up their own minds”. In this post-modern reasoning, evolution and the Book of Genesis are equally valid.
The losers have already begun worrying aloud that this will hurt Cobb County's reputation as a place where children can get a good education. Cobb's schools consistently rank above the state average, which is not saying much. But what happens if superior schools insist that previously accepted facts have become mere theory? No comment from Mr Gingrich, who now lives in Virginia.
One gets that impression from reading the writings of creationists, here and on various web sites. ONe must assume that they are telling the truth about their beliefs.
knowing/going nowhere---
doctor of the anthill!
God wouldnt't even need six seconds to do anything.
He doesn't/wouldn't operate according to your insect mind set!
opposite ideas/personalities that aren't functioning/communicating very well together---
evolution &/vs science except in crazy people's head/beliefs!
Schizophrenia has nothing to do with multiple personalities. My question to you is, are you completely unable to compose complete, coherent sentences? Are you even aware of how your posts read and look?
Science has to be OBJECTIVE predictable-probable-facts-LOGIC(finite/rational)---
Science must limit itself from the political-ego/subjective lower CARNAL SUBJECTIVE animal world!
Science is law/design---CREATION!
Evolution/LIBERALISM is manmade myth/legend---FICTION/fantasy/denial!
Truth--science--creation never changes!
First of all---ALWAYS is philosophy...our conception of the universe--reality--humanity and God/theology.
Science and social science are laws/principles of philosophy/reality concerning technical/physical/moral aspects of the dual physical-spiritual(soul) nature of the universe.
Evolution does not rise above an ideology/superstition---a subconscious-DEAD knee jerk ATTEMPT only...to form an intelligent explanation of anything real!
More like an urban legend---mass hysteria with a political/financial/social agenda!
Dogs--dogmas---rigor mortis is evolution...
ANTI-PHILOSOPHY-reality/science/Truth---LIFE/sense too!!
Science has to be predictable-probable-facts(finite/rational)---
Science must limit itself to the material non-philosophical/spiritual higher world!
Evolution is super-un-natural...no law/design---chance/chaos/religion(Atheism)!
Trial and error...and error...and error...and error...and error...and error...and error...and error...and error...and error...and error...and error...and error...and error...and error...and error...and...
How can design--law--science--effect...
originate from speculation/fantasy w/o cause/design?
Ape-ancestry rejectionism? Tough! That's the way it happened.
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