Re: Texas: Board Set to Vote on Challenge to Evolution

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From the article:
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By STEPHANIE SIMON

The Texas Board of Education will vote this week on a new science
curriculum designed to challenge the guiding principle of
evolution, a step that could influence what is taught in biology
classes across the nation.

The proposed curriculum change would prompt teachers to raise doubts
that all life on Earth is descended from common ancestry. Texas is
such a huge textbook market that many publishers write to the
state's standards, then market those books nationwide.

"This is the most specific assault I've seen against evolution and
modern science," said Steven Newton, a project director at the
National Center for Science Education, which promotes teaching of
evolution.

Texas school board chairman Don McLeroy also sees the curriculum as
a landmark -- but a positive one.

Dr. McLeroy believes that God created the earth less than 10,000
years ago. If the new curriculum passes, he says he will insist
that high- school biology textbooks point out specific aspects of
the fossil record that, in his view, undermine the theory that all
life on Earth is descended from primitive scraps of genetic
material that first emerged in the primordial muck about 3.9
billion years ago.

He also wants the texts to make the case that individual cells are
far too complex to have evolved by chance mutation and natural
selection, an argument popular with those who believe an
intelligent designer created the universe.

The textbooks will "have to say that there's a problem with
evolution -- because there is," said Dr. McLeroy, a dentist. "We
need to be honest with the kids."
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http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB123777413372910705-lMyQjAxMDI5M...
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This is a mistake.

Evolution should be taught in it's entirety.

Creation should be taught in it's entirety.

Let the truth surface on it's own and in the fullness of it's own
time.

You should acquaint yourself with the US Constitution, especially the
separation of Church & State.

separation of Church & State is not in the US Constitution

1. Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion

Thomas Jefferson explained it thus:

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely
between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his
faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach
actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence
that act of the whole American people which declared that their
legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a
wall of separation between Church & State."

(Jefferson, Thomas (January 1, 1802). Jefferson's Letter to the
Danbury Baptists; The Final Letter, as Sent.)


See also Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145 U.S. from 1878
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Thomas Jefferson was ONE member of the original congress that voted on the
original constitution. The other members did not vote for the full
contents and context of his letter.

IOW, The entire letter was NOT voted into the constitution. Only this
part:

"legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". Period. Period. Get it?

It was not until Justice Black USED Jefferson's letter to justify his
decision in the 50's that the "Wall of separation between Church & State"
became a commonly used phrase. Which BTW circumvented the original vote
and consensus of the original congress.

Your WALL Of Separation is NOT actually in the constitution

But it is a perfect example of how a lie repeated often enough becomes as
if it were truth.

All public schools, sessions of legislatures, etc should start each day with
compulsory Orthodox Jewish prayers, including tallith and skullcap, putting
on tefillin, prayers and reading from the Torah in Hebrew, no women allowed
in the same section as men, etc. And of course end each day with the Jewish
evening prayers.

Would you like this? I presume you would be 100% in favour and enjoy it
immensely, even if you are not Jewish.

If not, why should you expect a Catholic to accept Baptist official
teacher-led prayers in schools, or vice versa, or expect Jews or Muslims to
accept this, or expect atheists to have to pray with their classmates?

Fortunately the Constitution forbids it. Tough shit for you.

There is no such prohibition in British schools, in fact the law mandates
prayers in public schools, and they have to be "mainly Christian"--even in
public schools that are otherwise secular but have, say, large majorities of
Muslim pupils. And people over here are getting their knickers in a
terrible twist over exactly this problem. The US has solved it neatly by
separating the state and religion. Well done.

--
Mike Dworetsky

(Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply)

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