State frees teachers to criticize evolution
Global warming, origins of life, cloning also may be scrutinized
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal this week signed into law the Louisiana Science Education Act, which allows school districts to permit teachers to present evidence, analysis and critique of evolution and other prevalent scientific theories in public school classrooms.
The law came to the governor’s desk after overwhelming support in the legislature, including a unanimous vote in the state’s Senate and a 93-4 vote in the House.
As usual, the left are the ones who want to stiffle dissenting opinions. Yet they say us on the right want to censor people. The Orwellian doublespeak is mind boggling.
Wrong. The Left has perverted the Bill of Right to squash discussion of opposing viewpoints. The Constitution says Freedom OF Religion, not Freedom FROM Religion that the left wants.It’s been tried before. And it’s been shot down. In Louisiana. The problem is that it is an attempt to support a religion (creationism), and singles out one science but not others.
On January 11, 1985 Judge Duplantier entered a summary judgment ruling the Balanced-Treatment Act to be a violation of the establishment clause, because the concepts of creation and a creator are necessarily religious and therefore unscientific. In his ten-page written opinion, Duplantier stated that “the teaching of ‘creation-science’ and ‘creationism,’ as contemplated by the statute, entails teaching tailored to the principles of a particular religious sect or group of sects,” and the statute "promotes the beliefs of some theistic sects to the detriment of others."
grisda.org/origins/12038.htm
The problem is obvious; they are trying to find some way to circumvent the Bill of Rights without breaking the law.
Not possible.
BTW, here’s some information on “Expelled” and some of the issues brought up in the film. After you read it, you will perhaps have some understanding why the Anti-Defamation League criticized the movie for it’s attempts to downplay the causes of Hitler’s Holocaust.
It’s no more than a smokescreen to get religion into the public schools-primarily the Fundamentalist Protestant religion.It’s been tried before. And it’s been shot down. In Louisiana. The problem is that it is an attempt to support a religion (creationism), and singles out one science but not others.
On January 11, 1985 Judge Duplantier entered a summary judgment ruling the Balanced-Treatment Act to be a violation of the establishment clause, because the concepts of creation and a creator are necessarily religious and therefore unscientific. In his ten-page written opinion, Duplantier stated that “the teaching of ‘creation-science’ and ‘creationism,’ as contemplated by the statute, entails teaching tailored to the principles of a particular religious sect or group of sects,” and the statute "promotes the beliefs of some theistic sects to the detriment of others."
grisda.org/origins/12038.htm
The problem is obvious; they are trying to find some way to circumvent the Bill of Rights without breaking the law.
Not possible.
BTW, here’s some information on “Expelled” and some of the issues brought up in the film. After you read it, you will perhaps have some understanding why the Anti-Defamation League criticized the movie for it’s attempts to downplay the causes of Hitler’s Holocaust.
No, it’s quite true. The Supreme Court settled that during the previous attempt.Wrong.
Turns out that the establishment clause protects public school children from religious indoctrination. Re-labeling as “discussion of opposing viewpoints” has been tried. The courts weren’t fooled.The Left has perverted the Bill of Right to squash discussion of opposing viewpoints.
Actually, it says both.The Constitution says Freedom OF Religion, not Freedom FROM Religion
Freedom is not just a leftist thing. Libertarians and many traditional conservatives also support the Bill of Rights, including religious freedoms. And there are leftists who don’t favor religious freedom.that the left wants.
The problem of course is that in science, opinion and viewpoints really don’t matter…. evidence doesWrong. The Left has perverted the Bill of Right to squash discussion of opposing viewpoints.
Actually, it says neither of thoseThe Constitution says Freedom OF Religion, not Freedom FROM Religion that the left wants.
Despite a court-ordered ban on the teaching of creationism in US schools, about one in eight high-school biology teachers still teach it as valid science, a survey reveals. And, although almost all teachers also taught evolution, those with less training in science – and especially evolutionary biology – tend to devote less class time to Darwinian principles.
…“However, a quarter of the teachers also reported spending at least some time teaching about creationism or intelligent design. Of these, 48% – about 12.5% of the total survey – said they taught it as a “valid, scientific alternative to Darwinian explanations for the origin of species”.”
I think a bargain can be reached. Christian Fundamentalists can come into the science classroom and talk to kids about creationism if scientists can come to church on Sunday and lecture about evolution from the pulpit.As usual, the left are the ones who want to stiffle dissenting opinions. Yet they say us on the right want to censor people. The Orwellian doublespeak is mind boggling.
I’d like to see the proof of that.HOWEVER Intelligent design … isn’t SCIENCE, it’s philosophy.
“The bottom line is this: The future use or suspension of methodological naturalism depends on what is discovered. If the best explanation for some new phenomenon is design, even supernatural design, it would still count as a scientific explanation. It borders on academic incompetence to pretend that science has strict boundaries and then gerrymander those boundaries to keep out the riffraff. Philosophers of science in particular should know better.”