Two weeks after a federal judge ordered Cobb County to remove evolution disclaimers from science books, a state lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring that only “scientific fact” to be taught in public schools. To Republican State Rep. Ben Bridges of Cleveland, that rules out the theory of evolution.

“A theory can be wrong. If it’s wrong, or possibly could be wrong, don’t teach it. Teach it with facts. If you’ve got facts to back it up, that’s great,” Bridges told 11Alive News Reporter Jon Shirek.

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Sounds fine to me, perhaps Bridges should read the explanation of Evolution is both a Law and a Theory.

“Biologists consider the existence of biological evolution to be a fact. It can be demonstrated today and the historical evidence for its occurrence in the past is overwhelming. However, biologists readily admit that they are less certain of the exact mechanism of evolution; there are several theories of the mechanism of evolution.”

Or read Stephen Hawking’s explanation:
“a theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations.” He goes on to state…”Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis; you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. On the other hand, you can disprove a theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the predictions of the theory.”
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In addition, a Religious belief cannot be a scientific theory because by definition, it is supported by faith - and not scientific evidence. If past evidence supports it, and it can be used to predict future events reliably, then it’s no longer a matter of faith - and becomes a scientific theory.

Public schools have a responsiblity to train the students in generally accepted scientific fact and theory. The student can discount the concepts if they like, but should at least understand them. Otherwise - guess what, the rest of the world will continue to be smarter then your kids. If I have to pay to send ‘em to school, they should at least come out smarter then they went in.

Anybody notice 2600’s most recent magazine cover?