Alabama Lawmaker Wants To Legislate ‘Debate’ On Evolution

Posted by | May 8, 2015 11:00 | Filed under: Politics

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Mack Butler wants teachers to be able to teach alternatives to what has already been scientifically proven.

Susan Watson, executive director of the ACLU of Alabama, told AL.com:

This is a thinly-veiled attempt to open the door to religious fanatics who don’t believe in evolution, climate change or other scientifically-based teaching in our schools. It also opens Alabama to costly litigation that it just cannot afford.

Butler’s bill says it would “allow public school teachers to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of all existing scientific theories covered in a science course.”

Josh Rosenau, of the National Center for Science Education’s programs and policy director, told AL.com that these types of legislation “nudge away from teaching what the state science standards, what national education and science organizations all say, which is evolution is the foundation of modern biology and has to be the foundation of a biology class.”

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11 responses to Alabama Lawmaker Wants To Legislate ‘Debate’ On Evolution

  1. fahvel May 8th, 2015 at 12:22

    why would an educated intelligent person speak to a creationist except for a few chuckles?

    • Warman1138 May 8th, 2015 at 12:51

      Or out of pity for the mentally deficient.

  2. Gindy51 May 8th, 2015 at 12:34

    Okay, you evangenital freak, no more doctors or nurses for you. No more cars,m buses, planes, computers, phones, TVs or anything else science has produced.

  3. Warman1138 May 8th, 2015 at 12:48

    Another ” It’s The Flintstones ” fan.

  4. William May 8th, 2015 at 14:26

    Alabama *sigh*

  5. tracey marie May 8th, 2015 at 14:48

    We are NOT a theocracy, stop trying to implement sharia law in my country

  6. FatRat May 8th, 2015 at 15:16

    Mack Butler better watch his step or Boko Haram is going to serve him a cease and desist letter for theft of intellectual property.

    Boko Haram translates to “Western education is forbidden”.

    http://media.cagle.com/29/2014/05/07/148170_600.jpg
    “She Blinded Me With Science” {LYRICS}
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBIps187MKk

  7. bpollen May 8th, 2015 at 15:42

    “Class, this is evolution, a scientific consensus on the origin and change in species. And this, Creationism, is a fairy tale from Iron Age tribesmen. Class dismissed.”

  8. Dwendt44 May 8th, 2015 at 17:08

    Facts and evidence need not apply.

  9. Suzanne McFly May 8th, 2015 at 17:20

    I don’t even think this is for religious purposes, I believe this is for the oil companies to be able to continue to destroy our climate and frack away till the Earth is gone to dust.

  10. allison1050 May 9th, 2015 at 06:48

    Another dumb azz out of the closet.

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