Re: Tennessee: Finney says he may drop creationism question bill

In article <s9uhv21tlcoeeoq1hhephcg9it4ct91c8p@xxxxxxx>,
Jason Spaceman <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From the article:
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MARYVILLE, Tenn. ? The state senator who proposed forcing Tennessee's
top education official to answer if a supreme being created the
universe said he may stop pushing the matter.

"I'm not sure I'm going forward with that," Sen. Raymond Finney,
R-Maryville, said today in a telephone interview from his Nashville
office. "I'm probably going to reword it anyway. This may not be the
time and place for that."

Finney cited a workload with other legislation as one reason to
reconsider the resolution he introduced, which asks Education
Commissioner Lana Seivers to answer whether the universe "has been
created or has merely happened by random, unplanned, and purposeless
occurrences."

Finney previously has said he wants the department to say there's no
scientific proof for the theory of evolution and to let schools teach
creationism or intelligent design.

"I probably made a mistake in approaching it from a creation aspect,
which raises red flags," Finney said Tuesday. "People get so sensitive
about whether children might be exposed to any sort of religious
thing."
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The first standard answer is that he sets up a false dichotomy between
God and that whole random thing. But it goes deeper than that: He's
asking the wrong person the wrong question. What he ought to do is ask
the heads of the Physics, Geology, and Biology departments at the
University of Tennessee to do some research into the question of how the
universe (and life) were created. UTK is just a up the road from him; I
wonder if he's heard of it.

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