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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.
Good idea, but I need a special T-shirt. I'm inspired by this:
G3K's infamous Post 1360: "You execrable piece of lying garbage ...";.
Looks to me like the funny business is starting back up.
Huge Sigh!
Hahahaha! Scientific thug bump!
Do you want that embroidered on the front or back of your t-shirt?
Materialists are. Evolutionists are. They claim that random chance is the creator of all things. It is ridiculous of course.
You are beginning to get it!If the universe were random then science would be impossible because random events cannot be consistently verifiable. Science looks for consistency in the universe and tries to discover it. It would be impossible to find any such consistency in a random universe. Therefore the random universe proposed by materialists and evolutionists is false since we do find consistent laws working everywhere in the universe.
ID certainly does. It postulates that the designer is intelligent. That's the only germane postulate necessary. You do not need to know the hair color of the designer to say that something has been intelligently designed.
G3K: Materialists are. Evolutionists are. They claim that random chance is the creator of all things. It is ridiculous of course.
The only thing that is ridiculous is your claim. Back it up. Post a reference from an evolutionist claiming that "random choice is the creator of all things."
Ah, but they were "designed" to replicate natural and not artificial conditions. One can fairly accurately recreate natural conditions in this way.
That, in and of itself, is not a particularly good reason to believe there was a designer...
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