[wallcrawlr]

previously accepted facts

Thank God most kids go to Sunday School before they hit public school.
That way they have a chance at realizing what is/isn't fact.

Twist that however you want.

[johniegrad]

But what happens if superior schools insist that previously accepted facts have become mere theory?

Evolution has always been a theory and never a fact. It is a good theory as measured by the number of attempts to refute it. Its value is not in its ultimate validity or lack thereof but in its ability to generate debate and discussion. Odd that this writer would not recognize that. I think he has his own agenda.

[Cicero]

General Evolution is an unproven theory, many would say a disproved theory. After a century and a half, it looks less likely than when Darwin first promoted it.

The most dedicated proponents of evolution are newspaper writers and editors, politicians, educational theorists, and dogmatic atheists, not real working scientists.

Few scientists will speak out against evolution, because they don't want the grief they would bring themselves if they offended the evolution fanatics. But few speak out for it, either. Thousands teach evolution in the schools, because it is a required subject, but relatively few have dedicated scholarly careers to it.

[FreeTally]

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.

Having evolution mentioned as a disputed theory along with other ideas of the origin of man should be the least of anyone's concerns about their child's "education". It seems clear that anyone who would worry about such is more interested in indoctrination than education. Kids can't read, speak english correctly and understand math, but mentioning theories other than evolution may harm a school's reputation as giving a good education? Typical looney arguments from the God-haters.

I think the article unintentionally got it right when it called them "losers".

[Sergio]

Remember, absence of proof does not mean that a thing does not exist.

Scientists said that no life could exist without sunlight, either directly or indirectly, yet life has been found in the deepest, darkest regions of the ocean living off of sulfur or methane that escapes from the earth’s crust. The guys with the high foreheads said it was impossible, that there was no proof.

Suddenly, poof! Another theory disproved.

By the same token, the existence of God cannot be (scientifically) proved, but most of us believe in the existence of the Supreme Being.

I like to think of myself as a Scientific-Creationist. This is someone who believes in evolution, but knows in his/her heart that it would take God to give creatures/life the ability to change over time to increase their survival rates.

In layman’s terms. Sure things evolve, God made sure of it. "He" doesn't believe in planned obsolescence, "He" only does first class work.

Best Regards

Sergio

[gore3000]

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.

Since when is indoctrination a good education? If evolution were a science, they would be glad to discuss different theories.

[Youngblood]

I haven't been following this. What are they planning to teach as the alternative view? Is it really the literal Genesis story? Because that will have repercussions in some subjects other than biology. Or is it a theistic evolutionary view, which most people accept anyway?

The second option wouldn't trouble me personally, but the idea that young-earth creationsim should be taught as science is totally laughable.

[JZoback]

What exactly are these evolutionist so afraid of?

[nightdriver]

"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."

I don't know where the evolutionists get the idea that creationists believe that the earth was created in six days. The Bible does not teach that. It is the same old straw-man argument that has been the tactic of evolutionists since Darwin.

[AnnaZ]

"...anti-evolutionists..."

 

Well, that's a first. Is that like anti-choice? Not really pro-anything, just anti- something else. Good grief.

[DrCarl]

>the idea that God created the universe in six days

By Gawd! Six days! Blasphamy! MY God didn't need no six days! My God created the universe in half an hour! Needed his coffee first but then, Poof!

Dern heathens!