Antievolution legislation in Mississippi

To teach creationism is child abuse

This should be a Billboard.

"To teach creationism is child abuse"...

I wonder why these crackpots don't try to stop health classes, after all basic human biology denies virgin birth.

or why don't we promote the stork theory of where babies come from?... just as valid as creationism.

Viagra I'll give up, but not cold beer.

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how many won't have a choice because their parents pick the schedule?

kcfoxie,
In that case, I guess you just have to hope the brainwashing doesn't stick.

Neither Creationism nor Intelligent Design should be taught as science in schools as an elective or as a required course, as there is no scientific evidence for either one. There is not one single scrap of scientific evidence, not one. It would be like teaching that the Sun revolves around the Earth, or that if you sail too far out to sea, you will fall off the Earth.

umm where are you getting the no evidence argument?Have you even opened a book on Geology? hmm there's the first fact that the earth is 4.5 billion years old. Secondly this little thing called the fossil record shows that man didn't come from the clay molded by God. And thirdly that you're losing your wisdom teeth, which were originally used as some extra teeth to grind up those hard to chew plants, the fact that mankind is losing them is a sign of small time evolution.

You're the zealot, fanatic and idiot if you don't want other alternative theories presented along with Evolution. Who is being a zealot or idiot if you present Evolution as fact? That would be you?

1) what alternative theories
2)im completely open to alternative theories, so long as they are backed up by EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE. ya know, that lil thingy that all of science is built upon? independent of what some primitive tribe leaders wrote while wandering the desert eating locusts.

This has absolutely nothing to do with Religion! Get that out of you way and you'll see the many flaws that Evolution has and that it's unfair to teach this in our public schools as fact! After all our aim to teach our students to think and make decisions on their own, force feeding them the THEORY of Evolution as fact is impeding any progress!

acolchad... name a few flaws.

@acolchad...really? this has nothing to do with religion? except for the fact that it was proposed by some fundamentalist right wing bible thumper who doesnt want his child knowing any sort of truth except for the one he feels is correct...in politics...EVERYTHING has to do with religion in one form or another

* acolchad,
All refusals to accept evolution have a religious basis.

that crazy idea of "the THEORY of Evolution"

next thing you know, teachers will teach the THEORY of Gravity like it's real...

I never understand why people fall back on this. You say a god waived his magical wand creating life etc. and we need to bring out our evidence? You've had a few million years head start along with the advantage of not having to make sense.

acolchad
Creationism has nothing to do with religion. Breathing has nothing to do with air. Eating has nothing to do with food....
As for teaching kids and letting them choose what they want to learn (do you know any children?), let not try that.

Also, the emphasis on "theory" is misleading. You know the whole thing with the earth going around the sun and all? Our solar orbit is a theory, yet you look like an idiot if you try and refute it. So is the existence of atoms, genes, and pretty much anything to do with quantum physics. Using the fact that evolution is a theory as a basis for an argument is not a brilliant argument.