Texas Law Tells Schools to Teach Bible

Sadly it's democrats that made it possible.

Alrighty, I gotta hear the logic behind that.

Laws in Texas cannot pass with out some blue backing.

you need to back up your statistics, they are unbelievable.

You also might want to brush up on your civics, it appears you fail to grasp the concept of a separation between church and state.

No that is not correct.
Under no circumstances does anyone have the right in a publicly funded school to use the bible as a history book. Are you joking?

'And the last I heard the reoffending cycle had gone down to about 3% showing this program was more effective than any one thought'

And that is verified by...?

no this is no joke, read and learn

LPF, you can not make that an objective statement.

You missed the point. The concern is that these textbooks have a chance of becoming the national standard

Not only that but it is in direct violation of the first amendment in the constitution.

The problem is that the theory of evolution is supported by scientific evidence. Not only is the bible not supported by scientific evidence, it is quite frequently contradicted by it.

You're implying that teaching the bible is about evolution theories. But to teach the bible in general, especially without any guidelines on how or what to teach from it, is going to be about a lot more than that.

Also, why only the Christian bible? There are other religions. If it's about letting everyone share their beliefs, then why wouldn't they also incorporate other religious views and texts?

Peer reviewed science versus myth. Advantage science.

YO imperfect human come and read my stuff and tell me if I'm right.

OK Ill read your stuff with my imperfect self and say whether or not your idea is right.

Dude.

Yeah....

This is the best system ever.

DO you think I have it right?

If I say you have it right will you say I have mine right?

Yes.

Then, yes...it's right.

Awesome.

Right on.

hahahahaha...peer review is a joke.

'peer review is a joke'

So, by extension, science is false so base you your reality on myth passed down orally by the early incarnation of the Taliban. Wonder why there are no

Sure, I'll see the 'light' when the Rapture comes, I guess.

Oddly, there is not one single writing from or about Jesus during his supposed lifetime.

Like the supposed founders of many religions, Jesus left no personal writings of any kind, nor any trace of his existence.
Indeed his supposed bodily ascension into heaven precludes the possibility of there even being any bodily evidence for his existence, if that story were to be believed.
No writing, graffiti, or evidence of any kind has ever been found from the period in which he supposedly lived that establishes the existence of Jesus.
If we take the view that Jesus was indeed God, then it would be peculiar that he was unable to write and chose to write nothing himself. Of course the counter argument to this is that God wanted people to have faith so he intentionally didn't leave any evidence of himself.
Okay...
If we take the view of Jesus was a real person who was a teacher and the leader of a religious movement, then we could expect that this person would have produced his own writings, since other rabbis, theologians, and teachers did.
However, it is always possible that this person may not have been able to write or that none of his writings were preserved. Still, if we did have writings from Jesus that would certainly clear many things up, but we don't.

If we are to take the Gospels as our guide to the life of Jesus Christ, then we must look at Pontius Pilate as the figure who solidifies the period in which Jesus must have lived.

Pilate was the governor of Judea from 26 to 36 CE, a ten year period. The Jesus of the Gospels, then, had to have lived and been killed during this period if the Gospels are true accounts.
Scholars go further and state that based on the information given in the Gospels Jesus had to have died in either the year 27, 30, or 33 CE. Since, aside from the dubious birth stories in Matthew and Luke, the Gospels deal strictly with a supposed ministry of Jesus that lasted from 1 to 3 years, we are looking at a date range from about 24 CE to 36 CE as the period during which we could look for writings about Jesus that were produced during his "lifetime".

Indeed the Gospels themselves state many times that "scribes" were present during the various acts of Jesus, yet we have no records from these supposed scribes. Nothing in the Jewish midrash of the time mentions anything about Jesus Christ or any of the events in the Gospels.

How confusing.

The bible dictated that there was a king Nebuchadnezzar....OHNOSE that king doesn't exist in our records...those archologist said for many moons. Then they found a cuneiform that had his name. Looks like the Bible was right. Pity, I know.

Then another frustrating thing happened Jesus name was inscribed and it was said to be Jesus because it said son of Joseph brother of James. Too vague....only if you wish it to be false.

I said that peer review was silly because it pisses people who love science off. They can go around and mock other people's thinking, but if you do it to them...OH NOSE they are all FACT is on our side. If you want to see human pride at it's worse....you look at science.

Checkmate.

The Illiad dictates that there was a nation called Troy..which for hundreds of years was though false, and just a story...NOW we know it did in fact exist. WHOA!

We thought for the longest time that the Greeks never launched an invasion of troy...NOW we have found archaeological evidence that they did besiege the city!! OMG!!

I guess Zeus is real.

A name is more specific than a city.

For one.....

and two...how does that take away from the Bible at all?

Oh wait...it doesn't.