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How, in this day and age are there still legislators that want to not only deny evolution, but ban it from public schools?

This guy is a total whack job... how the hell did he even get into office?

Jerry Bergevin from New Hampshire has introduced legislation to stop the teaching of evolution in schools and has claimed that the theory of evolution lead to the Columbine massacre.

"I want the full portrait of evolution and the people who came up with the ideas to be presented. It's a worldview and it's godless. Atheism has been tried in various societies, and they've been pretty criminal domestically and internationally. The Soviet Union, Cuba, the Nazis, China today: they don't respect human rights," he said.
"As a general court we should be concerned with criminal ideas like this and how we are teaching it... Columbine, remember that? They were believers in evolution. That's evidence right there," he said.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/02/jerry-bergevin-evolution-columbine-nazis_n_1179589.html
 
You coulda picked a more reliable source than Huffington.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/artic...n?SESSd7c9d764710789a1a3eb9e03630d5a8e=google
Hopper points to the state constitution and its order that teachers support their students' "morality and piety" for the justification of his bill.
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Piety?

http://www.nh.gov/constitution/billofrights.html
[Art.] 6. [Morality and Piety.] As morality and piety, rightly grounded on high principles, will give the best and greatest security to government, and will lay, in the hearts of men, the strongest obligations to due subjection; and as t he knowledge of these is most likely to be propagated through a society, therefore, the several parishes, bodies, corporate, or religious societies shall at all times have the right of electing their own teachers, and of contracting with them for their support or maintenance, or both. But no person shall ever be compelled to pay towards the support of the schools of any sect or denomination. And every person, denomination or sect shall be equally under the protection of the law; and no subordination of a ny one sect, denomination or persuasion to another shall ever be established.
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Nope. He's got it wrong, but he's working on being a great candidate for federal legislature with the way he reads extra meaning into things.
 
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You coulda picked a more reliable source than Huffington.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/artic...n?SESSd7c9d764710789a1a3eb9e03630d5a8e=google
Piety?

http://www.nh.gov/constitution/billofrights.html

Nope. He's got it wrong, but he's working on being a great candidate for federal legislature with the way he reads extra meaning into things.
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You are addressing the Hopper bill, he is another legislator with a different bill. My post was addressing the bill by Jerry Bergevin.
 
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The article mentioned both. Hopper is the more sane of the two! The weird thing is, evolution isn't "taught" in most science classes so far as I'm aware. They teach scientific process and natural selection. My world geography textbook touched on it, though.

Y'know, reading that again, it does say that public teachers can be contracted to support piety. Strange in this day & age.
 
Tim said:
How, in this day and age are there still legislators that want to not only deny evolution, but ban it from public schools?

This guy is a total whack job... how the hell did he even get into office?

Jerry Bergevin from New Hampshire has introduced legislation to stop the teaching of evolution in schools and has claimed that the theory of evolution lead to the Columbine massacre.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/02/jerry-bergevin-evolution-columbine-nazis_n_1179589.html
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This is a good example of where RELIGION can take us when spun in the minds of human beings.
 
Makes you wonder where all those cathedrals came from....

That's it!!! Aliens built 'em!

Then again, from about 250 to as late as 1750 (arguably later) there was that gaping hole caused by roasting, slicing, dicing or otherwise torturing imprisoning and killing all those "heretics" and "witches". Much later if you count Scopes.

I never did understand how the theory of evolution became a religious issue anyway. But the same stupid argument used against Galileo and Copernicus in the here and now does suggest evolution has a great many throwbacks.
 
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