First Russian Anti-Evolution Suit Enters Court Room

sdriver writes "If you thought it was only the US giving Darwin a hard time, Russia has its own problems starting with evolution. A student has 'sued the St. Petersburg city education committee, claiming the 10th-grade biology textbook used at the Cervantes Gymnasium was offensive to believers and that teachers should offer an alternative to Darwin's famous theory.' The suit, the first of its kind in Russia, is being dismissed out of hand by the principal and teachers. The teacher of the science class had apparently even taken the step of stating at the start of the school year that there were other theories on the origin of life."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:other theories

[arminw]

......the other proposals for the development of life on earth are conjectures......

ALL proposals for the development of life on earth are conjectures! Just because something is labeled as science doesn't make it so. Nobody KNOWS how life got started. Evolutionists BELIEVE it got started by randomness. Christian and other religions equally BELIEVE in an intelligent Creator. Everything we humans make from Airplanes to Zeppelins requires thought and planning. Evolutionists believe that this thinking process was not needed in the case of life.

To make life, requires matter and energy. Evolutionists will not concede that just as in human creativity, there is one more, vital ingredient and that is thought, planning and imagination. These are all activities of MIND. Human minds involved for Airplanes and things and a vastly superior MIND, the mind of God involved in the making of life. Nobody can prove where the universe came from. Both so called scientists and those of any religion only can BELIEVE one thing or other.

Re:other theories

[ArcherB]

Evolution is a fact. 100% absolutely proven beyond any possible doubt.
Here, I'll prove it to you:
Ever seen a dog?
There you go.

WOW! It's all so clear now. I am convinced! A dog. Why did I not see it before?

At first I thought you were a fucking moron for spending so much time trying to convince me that evolution is a fact after I stated that I have no qualm with evolution or it being taught in schools. Then, you made that dog statement and it removed all doubt.

My point was that you are a true asshole for insulting someone's religion and their intelligence for believing in that religion. That makes you a grade-A, class 5 asshole. You are no more right than anyone else, and it shows your terribly misplaced conceit to think otherwise. You have no right to force your beliefs on others, just as others can not force their beliefs on you. That's what the freedom or religion is all about. I'll kill or die defending that right, and any true patriot will do the same for the Constitution. If you have a problem with that document, I hear Cuba does not have such backwards ideals as a freedom or religion. I also hear it's quite nice this time of year.

In other words, that makes you a pussy. See, it takes no courage to sit there behind your keyboard and type your drivel. However, if you had real guts and conviction, you'd go a bar that serves the a nearby military base and tell them how you think it's patriotic to murder Republicans, and I assume anyone else that has different views than your own. Hell, since most military personnel are Republican, you could go ahead and prove your patriotism by trying to take a Marine or two out. Or, more on topic, travel to the nearest mosque during their daily prayers, walk in and tell your views on their beliefs and stupid they are for believing them. You are wasting your time arguing with me, as you pointed out, I'm just a liar and a fool. Maybe you should try your luck with a few hundred angry Muslims. If you are so confident that you can prove your point, then you shouldn't have any problems. Hell, you could solve that whole radical Muslim thing once and for all!