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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
 Posted - 05/08/2009 : 09:49:31
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I just recieved this email from the NCSE
Dear Friends of NCSE,
Florida's antievolution bill is apparently dead; the winners of
Alliance for Science's third annual essay contest have been announced;
and NCSE is expanding its presence on Facebook.
FLORIDA ANTIEVOLUTION BILL DIES
With the close of the regular legislative session in Florida on May 1,
2009, Senate Bill 2396 apparently died in committee. If enacted, the
bill would have amended a section of Florida law to require "[a]
thorough presentation and critical analysis of the scientific theory
of evolution." The bill's sponsor, Stephen R. Wise (R-District 5),
originally announced his intention to introduce a bill requiring
"intelligent design" to be taught in Florida's public schools, telling
the Jacksonville Times-Union (February 8, 2009), "If you're going to
teach evolution, then you have to teach the other side so you can have
critical thinking."
The phrase "[a] thorough presentation and critical analysis of the
scientific theory of evolution" appeared in the previous legislative
session in Florida. House Bill 1483, which originally purported to
protect the right of teachers to "objectively present scientific
information relevant to the full range of scientific views regarding
biological and chemical evolution," was eventually amended -- due to
concerns about its constitutionality -- to require the public schools
to provide "[a] thorough presentation and critical analysis of the
scientific theory of evolution." Both that bill and its Senate
counterpart died in committee.
After SB 2396 was introduced, Florida Citizens for Science quickly
denounced it, writing, in a February 27, 2009, press release, "Wise's
antievolution bill is an insult to citizens who are tired of stomping
over the same ground over and over again. The Florida Board of
Education and last year's state legislature have already debated the
teaching of evolution ad nauseam. To insist on bringing this up again
is irresponsible because it will distract our lawmakers from the
important tasks at hand, and could burden one of our school districts
with a million dollar legal bill" (a reference to the Kitzmiller
case).
For the story in the Jacksonville Times-Union, visit:
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-02-08/story/wise_to_introduce_intelligent_design_bill
For Florida Citizens for Science's press release, visit:
http://www.flascience.org/wp/?p=926
And for NCSE's previous coverage of events in Florida, visit:
http://ncseweb.org/news/florida
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There is more but it has to do with the contest and facebook.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
Genetic Literacy Project |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 05/08/2009 : 13:20:53 [Permalink]
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Woo-hoo!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 05/08/2009 : 14:32:32 [Permalink]
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Just remember to cut the Bill's head and stuff the neck with garlic.
A stake to its heart won't hurt either... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 05/08/2009 : 14:53:39 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Just remember to cut the Bill's head and stuff the neck with garlic.
A stake to its heart won't hurt either...
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Bill Dembski? I'll supply the garlic.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 05/08/2009 : 16:40:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Simon
Just remember to cut the Bill's head and stuff the neck with garlic.
A stake to its heart won't hurt either...
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Bill Dembski? I'll supply the garlic.
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What, Dembski? Save your stakes & garlic, thus far he's proven himself to be no threat to anything. Everything he's touched has turned into embarrassing comedy.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2009 : 00:13:56 [Permalink]
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| And yet, he is the only thing the ID/creationist movement has that almost look like it had some understanding of science... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Florida's Antievolution bill is dead
