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Evolution limited on eve of Darwin's birthday
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On eve of Darwin’s birthday, states take steps to limit evolution
On the eve of the 203rd anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birthday, lawmakers in at least four states are taking steps to hinder the teaching of evolution in public schools, while other bills would do the same without naming evolution outright.
One of the bills, New Hampshire’s House Bill 1148, not only singles out evolution, but would require teachers to discuss its proponents’ ”political and ideological viewpoints and their position on the concept of atheism.” It is scheduled for a hearing in early February.
The author of the bill, Republican state Rep. Jerry Bergevin, has linked the teaching of evolution to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and Hitler’s atrocities and associates it with atheism.
“I want the full portrait of evolution and the people who came up with the ideas to be presented,” Bergevin told the Concord Monitor. “It’s a worldview and it’s godless. Atheism has been tried in various societies, and they’ve been pretty criminal domestically and internationally. The Soviet Union, Cuba, the Nazis, China today: They don’t respect human rights.”
In many ways, the debate over evolution mirrors strategies adopted by opponents in the battle over abortion: If it can’t be outlawed outright, critics will at least try to make it more difficult.
Several atheist organizations have called for the withdrawal of all the bills, but are keeping an especially close eye on Bergevin’s. David Silverman, president of American Atheists, has called it “ignorant, infuriating bigotry.”
Ahead of Darwin’s birthday on Feb. 12, other current anti-evolution bills include:
— In the Indiana Senate, a bill would allow school districts to
‘’require the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of
life within the school corporation.” That bill has already passed a statehouse�
committee and was scheduled for a vote on Jan 31.�
— The “Missouri Standard Science Act” would require the equal treatment of evolution and “intelligent design,” an idea that the universe was created by an unnamed “designer.” A second bill would require teachers to encourage students “to explore scientific questions, learn about scientific evidence, develop critical thinking skills, and respond appropriately and respectfully to differences of opinion about controversial issues, including biological and chemical evolution.”
— A bill in the Oklahoma Senate would require the state’s board of education to help teachers promote “critical thinking, logical analysis, open and objective discussion of scientific theories including, but not limited to, evolution, the origin of life, global warming, and human cloning” if a local school district makes that request.
— A second bill in the New Hampshire House would require science teachers to instruct students that “proper scientific inquir(y) results from not committing to any one theory or hypothesis, no matter how firmly it appears to be established.”
— A bill in Virginia would make it illegal for state colleges to require a class that conflicts with a student’s religious views. Critics say that would enable a student to receive a biology degree, for example, without studying evolution if he or she objected to it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/on-eve-of-darwins-birthday-states-take-steps-to-limit-evolution/2012/02/01/gIQAzxnAiQ_story.html
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Re:Evolution limited on eve of Darwin's birthday
« Reply #1 on: 2012-02-03 09:30:35 » |
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Quote from: DJ dAndroid on 2012-02-02 20:22:44
“It’s a worldview and it’s godless. Atheism has been tried in various societies, and they’ve been pretty criminal domestically and internationally. The Soviet Union, Cuba, the Nazis, China today: They don’t respect human rights.” |
[Bl.] It beggars belief that such a ignoramus could be elected to public office and yet there he is. Jesus wept.
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Re:Evolution limited on eve of Darwin's birthday
« Reply #2 on: 2012-02-04 13:40:05 » |
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Quote from: DJ dAndroid on 2012-02-02 20:22:44
The author of the bill, Republican state Rep. Jerry Bergevin, has linked the teaching of evolution to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and Hitler’s atrocities and associates it with atheism.
“I want the full portrait of evolution and the people who came up with the ideas to be presented,” Bergevin told the Concord Monitor. “It’s a worldview and it’s godless. Atheism has been tried in various societies, and they’ve been pretty criminal domestically and internationally. The Soviet Union, Cuba, the Nazis, China today: They don’t respect human rights.” |
I especially hate that ploy. Hitler was not an atheist and in fact part of even the simple enlisted German soldiers uniform prior to and during WW2, was a stamped steel belt buckle: Gott Mit Uns (God With Us)
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Re:Evolution limited on eve of Darwin's birthday
« Reply #3 on: 2012-02-04 17:17:43 » |
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Hitler was all about using religious imagery and the Catholic Church even formed an alliance with the Third Reich. The alleged atheism of the Nazi's is a persistent lie which serves both to deflect criticism from theocrats and to vilify atheists. Persistent repetition is the lie's life blood, so persistent debunking is the only way to memetically fight back.
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Quote from: DJ dAndroid on 2012-02-02 20:22:44
The author of the bill, Republican state Rep. Jerry Bergevin, has linked the teaching of evolution to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and Hitler’s atrocities and associates it with atheism.
“I want the full portrait of evolution and the people who came up with the ideas to be presented,” Bergevin told the Concord Monitor. “It’s a worldview and it’s godless. Atheism has been tried in various societies, and they’ve been pretty criminal domestically and internationally. The Soviet Union, Cuba, the Nazis, China today: They don’t respect human rights.” |
I especially hate that ploy. Hitler was not an atheist and in fact part of even the simple enlisted German soldiers uniform prior to and during WW2, was a stamped steel belt buckle: Gott Mit Uns (God With Us)
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