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Stemberger Group Opposes Teaching Evolution “As Fact”
Posted Feb 11, 2008 by William March
Updated Feb 11, 2008 at 06:31 PM
The Florida Family Policy Council, a religious conservative group headed by John Stemberger, says it will oppose new Florida public school science curriculum standards that it says advocate teaching evolution “as fact.”
The organization held a news conference including pastors, a public school parent and others in Orlando today.
Stemberger said evolution should be taught as “a theory with ... strengths and weakneses,” not as established scientific fact.
The organization says it will ask the Florida Board of Education to allow public testimony at its Feb. 19 meeting, when it will vote on the standards, from supporters and opponents of the standards.
Stemberger was also the driving force behind a petition drive for a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The amendment will be on the November election ballot.
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Por (Esther R.) on February 12, 2008 (Suggest removal)
I don’t agree with them teaching this as a fact. This is a scientific “theory.” I don’t want my son being taught something that I don’t agree with. If they took the Bible and prayer out of the schools, why are they going to allow this teaching. This is going to open a door of confusion to our children who are being taught otherwise. If a child is living in a home with high Christian and Biblical standards, this will bring up a lot of questions. I don’t agree with it and I will definitely if given the opportunity, vote against it.
Suggest removalPor (Issy Wise) on February 12, 2008 (Suggest removal)
I disagree with the attempt by “true believers” to impose their religious dogmas on scientific teaching in public schools, but I do agree that evolution should not be taught as “fact.”
No theory should be taught as fact.
Scientific theories are conditional inferences seeking to explain observations of nature– always conditional because they are always open to modification if new observations conflict with the inferences.
Science is open-minded. Imposing dogmas on science is its demise
The Christian West had a 1,500 year near-hiatus in scientific progress when religious dogmas captured the coercive power of the state to discourage the very open-mindedness that is the necessary foundational perspective of science.
Suggest removalPor (Vicki White) on February 12, 2008 (Suggest removal)
Ah, yes, ‘tis a wonderful thing, devolution. All these religious fundamentalists are going to drag us back to the good ol’ days…the Burning Times is what I think they were called. No wonder this country is losing ground in the fields of science-we use the bible as a textbook!
Suggest removalPor (Jamie Krueger) on February 13, 2008 (Suggest removal)
I suppose we shouldn’t teach the theory of Gravity, photosynthesis, or relativity as fact either?
Suggest removalMaybe the Florida Public Schools should let the fundamentalist Christians re-write history the way the Islamic theocracies of the Middle-East do?