Anti-Evolution "Academic Freedom" Bill Passed In Louisiana

Ars Technica is running a story about recently enacted legislation in Louisiana which will allow school board officials to "approve supplemental classroom materials specifically for the critique of scientific theories" such as evolution and global warming. The full text of the Act (PDF) is also available. Quoting: "The text of the [Louisiana Science Education Act] suggests that it's intended to foster critical thinking, calling on the state Board of Education to 'assist teachers, principals, and other school administrators to create and foster an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that promotes critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories.' Unfortunately, it's remarkably selective in its suggestion of topics that need critical thinking, as it cites scientific subjects 'including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.'"

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a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe.

[xkillkillx]

The Church Of The Flying Spaguetti Monster made it to the classroom!

Re:Weren't schools were supposed to do that alread

[ricegf]

To put it bluntly, the "goddidit" meme is pure laziness.

Kinda like claiming that Noah was instructed to put "two" of every "species" in an ark (got a source for either? didn't think so), Lot "leaving his daughter out to be raped" as "morality" (got a source for either? didn't think so) or trying to save the "angel Gabriel" (got a source for that? didn't think so).

I'm not attacking your intelligence, only your laziness in attacking a book you haven't bothered to actually read. You appear to not realize how ignorant you are when it comes to what the Bible actually says (I mean "ignorant" in its true sense - "lacking knowledge or information" - not as a slam; I'm sure when it comes to science you've invested more time in knowing the basics before debating the interesting issues).

Just because some anti-Christian writes something on a hate site doesn't cause the Bible to actually say it. You should attack using the source, not talking points someone else wrote for you.

Here's what the source - er, Bible - actually says:

• Genesis 7:2-3 Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
• Genesis 19:1,9,29 "The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening...", [Lot said], "Look, I have two daughters...", "'Get out of our way,' they replied. And they said, 'This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them.' and "So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe."

Now, your criticisms of the Bible may certainly be worth arguing - I enjoy debating questions such as these with my atheist friends. Even though Christianity is accepted on faith, there's nothing in the Bible I'm unwilling to discuss or defend. Such debates are great exercises for me to discover that what I was certain the Bible said isn't actually there. Thus, I empathize greatly with your ignorance. :-)

But be honest for a moment - if you came to one of my science classes and made so many basic errors in the first paragraph of your first test essay question, do you really think you'd pass?

Re:Weren't schools were supposed to do that alread

[tom's a-cold]

Look, the Bible is true. It says so in the Bible. OK???