Georgia considers banning 'evolution'
 

Its a political move that backfired. Alot of people pissed already I am sure she will back down.

All I can say about this is that these folks are inching us closer and closer to resembling a Christian version of what they have over in Saudi Arabia.

This Bible thumping crap makes people like me really start to hate folks like this pissant superintendant.

How the hell do you get to be in charge of an educational system when you yourself ignore anything that is incongruent with your views on the world? That's not faith, that's ignorance.

Generally, I'm the kind of guy that votes party-line Republican. If I lived in Georgia, I'd be (D) all the way just because of this a-hole.

If the Republican party continues to bend to this extremist Christian agenda, it's going to find a lot of people like me that consider themselves to be real conservatives looking for alternatives.

Can't we just ban Georgia? Keep Atlanta but muzzle the rest of them . . sheez.

What unbelieveable morons. Thats the kind of decision that you make behind close doors talking only to people that think the same you do . . its not the type of decision made in the light of day.

Keep in mind that this was proposed by the "highest" educator in the state.

God Help us. . . pun intended.

Is it possible that this seems logical since a lot of politicians (and even a few educators) haven't evolved past...well, you name it.

pure ignorance on the part of the superintendent

That reminds me of when my daughter's brownie troop was in the Field Museum in Chicago looking at the dinosaur bones. One mom leaned over and told her daughter "You don't have to look at those, we don't believe in that". :eek:

Dee

I would have laughed in her face, but I am not a very nice person . . stupid lady . . and she was allowed to breed.

Was she at least good looking? A small redeeming quality.

Holy Guacamole...as a biological anthropologist this makes me want to sic ill tempered macaques on these people.

How can someone NOT believe in the dinosaurs? I could maybe understand they thought people and dinos lived together simultaneously (which they did NOT), but deny them all together?
Whenever some fundaMENTAL Christian tells me evolution doesn't exist I ask them why they think God couldn't create that process? Usually shuts them up for a moment. Heck even the National Organization of my Protestant sect has on our website that we believe in evolution.

I didn't know a 150 year old term was a "buzzword". In a public school why is this even an issue, if they want their child to have a religious upbringing: do it at home, send them to a religious school, let them learn about different things then talk to them about why they don't agree with it.

ACK :mad:

I better knuckledrag back to my cave...

Very good looking, single mom of 3 girls, all from different dads...

After reading some great Supreme Court cases from Georgia last week, my mom (who has a sciencey degree from the same university that I attend) and I were talking about this. We decided that if our Catholic Bob Jones is okay with teaching evolution, that obviously there's definitely really good grounds for it, and people in Georgia are fubared.

Well at least she's good looking, thats a serious mitigating factor in stupid women ;) At least for guys.

Nice to see she absorbed the lesson on Creationism as a youth, shame she missed the chapter that recomended keeping her legs crossed and skirt firmly pressed down .. ::p

Haha...I was thinking the same thing.

I was told about Darwin by Sister Louise at St. Vincent dePaul Ele. in PHX Az.

Yeah let them be home schooled to to a "special" schools.

But the funny thing is how are theses children going to go through life. They will be behind in college science classes and psy classes.

To me faith is my going though all options and then picking what I beleive to be right. Not knowing there was any other way is ignorance, and if these children grow up and believe in evolution and turn from god, then their faith was not theirs it was their parents.

They children will not know how to respond to debates and disagreement, they will think if this is not what they were told they should just cover their eyes and ear and go "lalallalal I can't hear you, you are wrong.... lalalala" with out listening.


Ignorance is bred, not bore.


Chris

Well check this out...my friend is from an area SO conservative that it pervades the public school system and kids from the majority religion get time off from public school to go to their religious edifice next door. My friend's parents decided they didn't want their kids exposed to it, so they homeschooled them. it goes both ways. Parents have the right and obligation to educate their children as they see fit, which allows them to make alternative educaitonal arrangements. We may not agree with their agenda but that is their choice to make.

I don't understand what you mean about believing in evolution is making people turn from God. One can have faith, religion and a belief in God and evolution all at the same time.

Stupid parents who have their kids not take vaccines, teach them jack...these parents should be locked up for abuse because you are HURTING that kid.

-Rudey
--And then after conviction your body parts should be donated to people who need organs - thus solving 2 problems.

Like I predicted she caved in when members from her party pulled their support of her , and the outrage it caused across the country.

Evolution is here to stay in GA.

You gotta be shittin' me! As George Orwell once wrote in 1984:

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

What next? Teaching 'Christian' science (no, not the religion of the same name!), 'Christian' mathematics, 'Christian' English, ad nauseam.

Over sixty years ago a similar education movement flourished in Germany, perverted and promoted by the Nazi party. In an effort to rid the educational system of 'Jewish' influences and pushing an agenda of whacked out science (eugenics) it completely screwed up the German educational system.

Just some drivel I'm copied from some idiot who posted on the subject:

:D :D

Actually, the do have text books that are Christina based. My Aunt who homeschools her children (because the public school system is the Devil and will corrupt her kids because it's full of heathens...) teaches her kids science from Christen based text books. They books don't teach evolution. I don't know what the rest of them are like.

My uncle (by marriage...thankfully I am not related to him by blood) gave me this huge lecture once because I took a class in highschool called science in society and we discussed evolution and Darwin.
Interesting fact though...Darwin actually believed in God.

But it is still a theory, and theories should not be included in public education, actually nothing should be included in public education, but especially things that are theories. Well I mean they can be presented just not presented as scientific fact.


Oh wow! Who wrote this?

Facts always started out as theories. Obviously some panned out and some didn't. If we shouldn't teach theories in school. What the hell are kids supposed to do all day. Sit in class from 9-4 and stare at the walls?