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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (139130)9/29/2008 8:07:53 AM
From: SeachRE  Read Replies (2) of 173976
 
Jimmy Carter on Evolution: "As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I
am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the
education of Georgia's students. Her recommendation that the word "evolution" be
prohibited in textbooks will adversely effect the teaching of science and leave our high
school graduates with a serious handicap as they enter college or private life where
freedom of speech will be permitted."
"Nationwide ridicule of Georgia's public school system will be inevitable if this proposal
is adopted, and additional and undeserved discredit will be brought on our excellent
universities as our state's reputation is damaged."
"All high school science teachers, being college graduates, have studied evolution as a
universal element of university curricula, and would be under pressure to suppress their
own educated beliefs in the classroom."
"The existing and long-standing use of the word "evolution" in our state's textbooks has
not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence of God as creator of the
universe. There can be no incompatibility between Christian faith and proven facts
concerning geology, biology, and astronomy.
There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat earth in order
to defend our religious faith."
"Fortunately, it is the responsibility of the State Board of Education to make the final
decision on the superintendent's ill-advised proposal."
Source: The Carter Center
- Oklahomans for Excellence
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