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Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution
Helical writes "In an attempt to defy the newly approved state science standards, Florida Senator Rhonda Storms has proposed a bill that would allow teachers to contradict the teaching of evolution. Her bill states that 'Every public school teacher in the state's K-12 school system shall have the affirmative right and freedom to objectively present scientific information relevant to the full range of scientific views regarding biological and chemical evolution in connection with teaching any prescribed curriculum regarding chemical or biological origins.' The bill's main focus is on protecting teachers who want to adopt alternative teaching plans from sanction, and to allow teachers the freedom to teach whatever they wish, even if it is in opposition to current standards."
...the information still has to be scientific (and "ID" fails at that). There are a lot of "experts" out in Utah that would argue vehemently against that assertion.He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Evolution is simply a model that best fits the evidence, is it not? Wasn't the model of the earth flat at one time? I mean, it's great there is a model called evolution, but don't fool yourself into thinking it is absolutely true, no matter what additional information comes about.
I've read Slashdot for the last 5 years, and now I start posting... Go figure
No god == no intelligent design
End of the story
I get how this could be about Academics (as in the Academic Dishonesty Act), and I get how this could be about Freedom (as in the the Indoctrination Freedom Act), but somehow I can't get my head around using both those words together to describe this legislation. I think it's time to give up, move all the smart people North, and let the South go. They're fighting SO hard to become the laughing stock of the modern world, it might just be easier to disown them and move on.
In light of todays major primary elections in the US where the major themes are the war, the economy, healthcare and illegal migration, all this in a time where the US Dollar is so low that my own salary, here in Europe, has gone up 20% in Dollar terms in one year, and where the US is heading for a major recession partly caused by the enormous costs of the war in Iraq and bad practices in high risk loans, all this hugely exacerbated by a major imbalance in foreign trade, one would seriously think that whether God made the dinos from old bits and pieces or whether they evolved is only tangentially of importance in the current US?
The obsession with trying to turn the educational clocks back to the middle ages is, however, symptomatic of a country that has seriously lost its way.
If there was ever a time to use the flyingspaghettimonster tag, it is now... I can hardly wait for teachers to explain the correlation between pirates and global warming :)
Obviously from the title, I believe in creation. However, I do not believe that the teaching of my beliefs is the place of a school. This holds true for science's "beliefs" as well. Evolution is still a theory, and has not been proven to be fact YET. As such, it should not be taught in schools. I think the better path to take on this is that the study of human origin has no place at all in schools YET. Let us first find the 100% factual truth, if it can be found.
Where genius and insanity become confused true wisdom is found