Judge: Evolution stickers must be removed from textbooks

[Sacrificial Ram]

Well, apparently, it has become obvious to the law, that the 'stickers' saying evolution is only a theory is a statement that is religious in nature..

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/13/evolution.textbooks.ruling/index.html


This is probably due to the fact that they don't bother to do that with any other theories, such as the theory of gravity, geological theories, physics, and such.

[Soundsurfr]

Well, apparently, it has become obvious to the law, that the 'stickers' saying evolution is only a theory is a statement that is religious in nature..

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/13/evolution.textbooks.ruling/index.html


This is probably due to the fact that they don't bother to do that with any other theories, such as the theory of gravity, geological theories, physics, and such.
Indeed. Glad to see someone is playing with a full deck.

[Sacrificial Ram]

Indeed. Glad to see someone is playing with a full deck.
It looks like the reasoning for the judgement is as follows


His conclusion, he said, "is not that the school board should not have called evolution a theory or that the school board should have called evolution a fact."

"Rather, the distinction of evolution as a theory rather than a fact is the distinction that religiously motivated individuals have specifically asked school boards to make in the most recent anti-evolution movement, and that was exactly what parents in Cobb County did in this case," he wrote.

"By adopting this specific language, even if at the direction of counsel, the Cobb County School Board appears to have sided with these religiously motivated individuals."

The sticker, he said, sends "a message that the school board agrees with the beliefs of Christian fundamentalists and creationists."

"The school board has effectively improperly entangled itself with religion by appearing to take a position," Cooper wrote. "Therefore, the sticker must be removed from all of the textbooks into which it has been placed."

[zorathruster]

Now if they really wanted a form of equitability they would insist all those preachers who bewhale such things from the pulpit to announce before every sermon, "This is a theory about God being around and interacting with humanity, we really have no proof to support our 'Theory'." But for some unknown reason preachers only wish to inflict confusion on others!

[Superbug]

And they ought to say the same thing before teaching any theory. It's not OK to say that evolution is a theory and organic chemistry is a fact because they are all theories, controversial or not.