Creationism Verses Science

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The Long, Frustrating Battle Vs. Creationism
Louisiana allows public school teachers to question evolution. Defenders of this backward thinking are playing a disturbing shell-game with those demanding that Louisiana’s students be taught real science.

RDF is involved in its own fight against creationism being introduced in class. In a joint letter from RDF and the Freedom From Religion Foundation to a public high school in California, we say that claiming there is a controversy about evolution “is like teaching about the controversy that exists between chemistry and alchemy.”

By Zack Kopplin
When I was a high school senior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2010, I began a campaign to repeal my state’s “creationism law,” which allows teachers to sneak religion into public school science classes by using materials that criticize evolution. Seventy-eight Nobel laureates and many other prominent scientists and educators have joined me in calling for the repeal of this law, officially known as the Louisiana Science Education Act, and tens of thousands of people have signed petitions against it over the past four years, but so far we’ve failed. Louisiana teachers can still bring religion into public school science classrooms, legally.

The Louisiana State Legislature has voted to keep this law despite repeated challenges, in part because it has a fig leaf: No one has managed to demonstrate what is going on inside Louisiana classrooms. In 2013, as I was testifying before the Louisiana Senate Education Committee in support of a bill to repeal the law, Sen. Conrad Appel, the committee chairman, asked me, “Do you have any evidence of school districts or individual schools that are physically teaching creationism?”

There has been plenty of evidence, but it hasn’t been direct. For example, in Tangipahoa Parish, in 2011, school board member Brett Duncan requested that guidelines be developed “for the review of supplemental materials to be used by teachers for discussing evolution, creationism, and intelligent design.” That same year a pupil progression plan (an outline of what a school district intends to do that year) for Terrebonne Parish said that under the creationism law, teachers will “deliver facts for both arguments”â€"both evolution and creationism.

Gov. Bobby Jindal was asked about this law by NBC’s Education Nation and said, “I’ve got no problem if a school board, a local school board, says we want to teach our kids about creationism.” That is in fact why he signed the law.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/04/creationism_in_louisiana_public_school_science_classes_school_boards_and.single.html

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The Long, Frustrating Battle Vs. Creationism
Louisiana allows public school teachers to question evolution. Defenders of this backward thinking are playing a disturbing shell-game with those demanding that Louisiana’s students be taught real science.

RDF is involved in its own fight against creationism being introduced in class. In a joint letter from RDF and the Freedom From Religion Foundation to a public high school in California, we say that claiming there is a controversy about evolution “is like teaching about the controversy that exists between chemistry and alchemy.”

By Zack Kopplin
When I was a high school senior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2010, I began a campaign to repeal my state’s “creationism law,” which allows teachers to sneak religion into public school science classes by using materials that criticize evolution. Seventy-eight Nobel laureates and many other prominent scientists and educators have joined me in calling for the repeal of this law, officially known as the Louisiana Science Education Act, and tens of thousands of people have signed petitions against it over the past four years, but so far we’ve failed. Louisiana teachers can still bring religion into public school science classrooms, legally.

The Louisiana State Legislature has voted to keep this law despite repeated challenges, in part because it has a fig leaf: No one has managed to demonstrate what is going on inside Louisiana classrooms. In 2013, as I was testifying before the Louisiana Senate Education Committee in support of a bill to repeal the law, Sen. Conrad Appel, the committee chairman, asked me, “Do you have any evidence of school districts or individual schools that are physically teaching creationism?”

There has been plenty of evidence, but it hasn’t been direct. For example, in Tangipahoa Parish, in 2011, school board member Brett Duncan requested that guidelines be developed “for the review of supplemental materials to be used by teachers for discussing evolution, creationism, and intelligent design.” That same year a pupil progression plan (an outline of what a school district intends to do that year) for Terrebonne Parish said that under the creationism law, teachers will “deliver facts for both arguments”â€"both evolution and creationism.

Gov. Bobby Jindal was asked about this law by NBC’s Education Nation and said, “I’ve got no problem if a school board, a local school board, says we want to teach our kids about creationism.” That is in fact why he signed the law.

Read the full article by clicking the name of the source located below.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/04/creationism_in_louisiana_public_school_science_classes_school_boards_and.single.html

Trying to say that there is evidence against evolution is like shooting holes in a mountain.  It is not even relevant.  But there is money and power in claiming such ridiculous ideas because we have a group of people who still want to see the Bible as their sole source of authority.

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That is the only response that you made here that is correct.  So why are you so vehement in supporting the religious view point that is contrary to atheist ideals that are really mostly the same without a God to support them, but only common sense? Get off your high horse and join the rest of the atheists here without trying to make atheists look bad and religious people good because they do some good things, implying that atheists don't? Solitary