Indiana Senate panel OKs creationism teaching bill

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reetodd:

An Indiana Senate panel has approved a bill that would allow creationism to be taught in Indiana’s public schools.

The Times of Munster reported that the Republican-controlled Senate Education Committee voted 8-2 Wednesday to send the legislation to the full Senate despite pleas from scientists and religious leaders to keep religion out of science classrooms.

The bill allows schools to authorize “the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life” and specifically mentions “creation science” as one such theory. Creationism is the belief that the Earth and its creatures were created by a deity.

Purdue University professor of chemistry John Staver told the panel evolution is the only theory of life’s origins that relies on scientific investigations. He says creationism “is unquestionably a statement of a specific religion.”

Further proof that the government refuses to play by its own rules.  There have been several cases at the federal appeals and Supreme Court level saying that creationism and “intelligent design” are not allowed to be taught in science classes.

LOL! Just wait for the lawsuit to be filed and for the state to be swatted out like a bug by the courts.

you know

i thought this state, despite its problems, was relatively okay

i’m going to murder myself now

(via toastradamus)

Source: reetodd

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  1. andigreyscale reblogged this from rantingnraging and added:
    No joke. I don’t want to bring kids into a world where the country they’ll be living in has this bullshit in it. Fuck...
  2. rantingnraging reblogged this from goodreasonnews and added:
    what the WHAT. people wonder why i won’t have kids. this isn’t the whole reason, but SHIT LIKE THIS AMERICA doesn’t...
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  5. katniss--m3llark reblogged this from friendlyatheist and added:
    I fucking hate this state. So fucking much.
  6. catacombskittens reblogged this from thewaronindifference and added:
    Of course it had to be indi-fucking-ana where my biology teacher in high school said ‘I am a man of science and while I...
  7. thewaronindifference reblogged this from veganmudblood and added:
    Do you hear that? That pounding sound way off in the distance? Yeah. That’s me bashing my head against a wall.
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  9. veganmudblood reblogged this from ladyatheist and added:
    I heard this on the news yesterday. It made me want to cry. And laugh. No, wait. Just cry.
  10. axiomaticallyalyssa reblogged this from foreverliberal and added:
    This is horrible. It sucks that something like this doesn’t get as many notes as those “stop bullying” petitions- and...
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  12. mybraindroppings reblogged this from foreverliberal and added:
    This is bullshit.
  13. foreverliberal reblogged this from goodreasonnews and added:
    Ugh. As promised, the link for the petition is here —...
  14. sneerandloathing reblogged this from the-doctor-plays-quidditch
  15. road-to-dawn reblogged this from foreverliberal and added:
    If creationism can be taught in science classes, evolution should be taught in religious classes… after all, they want...
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  17. celithemisamanda reblogged this from foreverliberal and added:
    Fuck my home state’s
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  20. foreverliberal reblogged this from goodreasonnews and added:
    Ugh. If it hasn’t already been done, I’ll be doing a petition on this in the morning. Creationism or ID or whatever is...
  21. nothing-cannot-exist reblogged this from cheescaeks
  22. whalegoat reblogged this from friendlyatheist and added:
    I lost faith in humanity a while ago, but this kind of thing is just the nail in the coffin.
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  25. tikistitch reblogged this from totallynotagentphilcoulson and added:
    I think the true aim of “Creationism” is to make it TOO FUCKING ANNOYING for high school science teachers to do their...
  26. dajra reblogged this from mjolnirmaleficarum and added:
    I don’t want to live in this state anymore. :’U
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  31. totallynotagentphilcoulson reblogged this from traptin85 and added:
    There is absolutely nothing scientific about Creationism though. It’s entire argument is based on the Judeo-Christian...
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  33. weeaboo-chan reblogged this from toastradamus and added:
    shit like this makes me fucking weep
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  37. elainecantdraw reblogged this from toastradamus and added:
    you know i thought this state, despite its problems, was relatively okay i’m going to murder myself now
  38. traptin85 reblogged this from totallynotagentphilcoulson and added:
    you guys, Creationism is a theory just like Darwinism Science is about looking at things from every perspective, and by...
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