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Monday, November 08, 2004
Suit challenges textbook evolution disclaimers I just don't get it. Apparently, a group of parents signed a petition to have stickers placed inside of textbooks, explaining that evolution was a theory, not a fact. Since it doesn't specifically say anything about religion, they figure it's OK.
What?!? How about you go ahead and place stickers inside the Bible, saying that it's an opinion piece and shouldn't be taken too seriously? Any such "sticker" basically discredits anything it is placed inside. We cannot allow a religious theory with no basis in fact to be considered with the same weight as years of scientific study and knowledge. Which reminds me of a quote I heard once: Knowledge is the enemy of faith. No wonder they hate it.  Posted by Jodi Selander at 2:48 PM ...
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2 Comments:
There are a group of parents here who are trying to get the sticker removed. I think that it's ridiculous that they want us to believed we just popped out of the air. They have proof of how many species evolved not just humans. Of course that goes against the bible which tells them women are property so of course they are fighting it.
Heck the bible is just stories. It ought to be in the fiction section. Ok, that was mean... I'm sorry.
I just really pissed off about stuff being rammed down my throat.
Georgia
Georgia,
I absolutely agree. The Bible is a heavily censored version of events, written many years after the events actually happened. Then it was translated from its native Hebrew into the King Jame's Version, which left all sorts of passages up to interpretation. It's the same concept as that game of "telephone", where a person whispers something to the next one, down the line. What comes out at the end is a totally different message from the original. So I absolutely agree that it should be used a reference for your faith, a series of parables and guidelines for behavior, but it should not be interpreted as fact. So people routinely lived to be 600 years old, like Noah? And what happened to the dinosaurs; I don't see any mention of them in the Bible. It goes straight from Adam and Eve on. I also find it interesting how Creationists figure we just popped up in our current form. So what of all the skeletons and fossils, of other creatures, and other races of human? I just don't get how they can discount all the evidence.
Jodi
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