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I really hoped Missouri might be above this idiocy. After all, we’re the common-sense, “Show Me” state. I was wrong.
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Sionainn Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:36:23am |
Here’s the link.
This is awful and hopefully it won’t pass. Has the Supreme Court ever ruled on this issue before?
Reminds me of my daughter’s first grade class. The teacher asked if the students knew anything about rain. Lots of hands were raised and the teacher called on each kid. One little girl said that rain was in a big bowl in the sky and when it got too heavy for God to hold, it tipped over and created rain. At the time, I was cracking up because it was so ridiculous and hey, it’s just a little kid. The last kid called was mine who was able to correctly tell all about rain. It’s scary, though, that under this kind of law, very strange mythological stories will be used to explain the world.
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aagcobb Fri, Jan 13, 2012 12:34:42pm |
re: #1 Sionainn
Here’s the link.
This is awful and hopefully it won’t pass. Has the Supreme Court ever ruled on this issue before?
Reminds me of my daughter’s first grade class. The teacher asked if the students knew anything about rain. Lots of hands were raised and the teacher called on each kid. One little girl said that rain was in a big bowl in the sky and when it got too heavy for God to hold, it tipped over and created rain. At the time, I was cracking up because it was so ridiculous and hey, it’s just a little kid. The last kid called was mine who was able to correctly tell all about rain. It’s scary, though, that under this kind of law, very strange mythological stories will be used to explain the world.
Yes, the SCOTUS held in Edwards v. Aguillard that it was unconstitutional to teach creationism in public school science classes.
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KingKenrod Fri, Jan 13, 2012 1:20:14pm |
Text is here. It’s pretty bad. No only is ID required to be given “equal treatment” (meaning equal time, equal # of textbook pages, etc), but there are specific restrictions on how evolution can be taught. For instance, a theory has to be taught as “non-verifiable” if it can’t be verified by direct observation (with specific details of who and when the observation took place) or experimentation. Much of the language of the bill seems directed at preventing evolution from being referred to as a fact.
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