My
Thoughts
First of all lets look at what the sticker actually said.
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The
stickers reads:
"This textbook contains material on evolution.
Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living
things.
This material should be approached with an open mind, studied
carefully and critically considered."
It looks to me that all that is
being said is to consider other possibilities. I am a physics
major and that makes sense to me. How are we going to learn and
make progress if we do not question things? What makes what our
science and our legal system different than what the established church
did to other beliefs and other scientific ideas hundreds of years
ago. Now they do not torture people or burn them at the stack.
Now they say that is religious dogma.
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"This is a great day for Cobb County students," said Michael
Manely, an
attorney for the parents who sued over the stickers. "They're going to
be permitted to learn science unadulterated by religious dogma."
As I understand it more and more
scientific discoveries are pointing to their being an intelligent
creator. Not only that but there is really very little evidence
for evolution. Some of what was considered evidence has been
proven not to be true or even frauds. We seem to have these day
"scientific dogma". What is scary is that many of those
protesting against having other views of how we got here may not have
even looked at the evidence. They just believe what they have
been taught in a so called schools and textbooks without questioning
it. It seems to me if we are forced to accept only one idea of
creation that we are headed for a scientific dark age.
Now lets consider how U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper
has to say about the sticker.
"By denigrating evolution, the school board appears to be
endorsing the
well-known prevailing alternative theory, creationism or variations
thereof, even though the sticker does not specifically reference any
alternative theories," U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper said.
I do not know about you but Judge Cooper seems to make Evolution the
State Religion and that we should not question it.
And how do these parents and Judge Cooper consider this a violation of
our constitution.
U.S. District
Judge Clarence
Cooper said in his 44-page ruling. Some parents of students and the
American Civil Liberties Union had
challenged the stickers in court, arguing that they violated the
constitutional separation of church and state."
I will let you read the part of the constitution they
are referring to.
The
US Constitution
Amendment #1
Congress
shall make
no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of
the
people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a
redress
of grievances.
I ask you, do you see any mention of separation of church and
state. All I see is that Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion. As I recall people came to America to
have the freedom to worship as they pleased. This amendment was
written to protect us from the government telling us what we should
believe or how we should worship. It also goes on to say ...
abridging the freedom od speech, or of the the press . . . . Do
you see what I see? It seems to me that Judge Cooper is abridging
our right to free speech or press. Again what is scary, is that
the people and the judge protesting the sticker do not understand the
constitution for they have been told about the separation of church and
state for so long now.
Here are some other scientist in favor of the sticker.
Scientists Defend School Board's Use of Evolution
Disclaimer
Sticker
Friday November 12, 3:00 am ET
R. Robin McDonald and Greg Bluestein, Fulton County Daily Report
Calling
evolution "a theory in crisis," more than two-dozen scientists have
come to the defense of the Cobb County, Ga., Board of Education. The
scientists, all Ph.D.'s, portray evolution as "a live and growing
scientific controversy."
Among them are professors of microbiology, biochemistry and biophysics,
who have filed a friend-of-the-court brief siding with the school
board's 2002 decision to place a disclaimer about evolution in the
front of its high-school biology textbooks. At the board's direction, a
sticker placed in every Cobb biology textbook warns students that
evolution is "a theory, not a fact," and should be "critically
considered."
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David Albert
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