Anti-evolution group sues to block Kansas science standards

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An anti-evolution group filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to block Kansas from using new, multistate science standards in its public schools, arguing the guidelines promote atheism and violate students’ and parents’ religious freedom.

The group, Citizens for Objective Public Education, had criticized the standards developed by Kansas, 25 other states and the National Research Council for treating both evolution and climate change as key scientific concepts to be taught from kindergarten through 12th grade. The Kansas State Board of Education adopted them in June to replace evolution-friendly standards that had been in place since 2007.

The new standards, like the ones they replaced, reflect the mainstream scientific view that evolution is well-established. Most board members believed the guidelines will improve science education by shifting the emphasis in science classes to doing hands-on projects and experiments.

The nonprofit organization based in the small community of Peck, south of Wichita, was joined in its lawsuit by 15 parents from across the state with a total of 18 children — most of them in public schools — and two taxpayers from the Kansas City-area community of Lake Quivira. The parents say they’re Christians who want to instill a belief in their children that “life is a creation made for a purpose.”

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http://cjonline.com/news/2013-09-26/anti-evolution-group-sues-block-kansas-science-standards

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1. “life is a creation made for a purpose.”

And according to these fanatics, that purpose includes the raping of the planet until their savior appears and takes them away to a better place while those of us who don't fit into their little cookie cutter world, are left behind to suffer!

If Christianity is so damn great why does it need all the man made PR to promote it????

[elleng]

2. Right, it IS made for a purpose,

that is, to replicate itself!

[cloudbase]

3. There's no ignorance

like willful ignorance.

[2naSalit]

4. Knowledge is

a dangerous thing for those who require ignorance to promote their dogma.

[upaloopa]

5. Truth and reality violate religious freedom.

[Turbineguy]

6. I love the names these clowns pick

"Citizens for Objective Public Education". I suppose they can't very well call it "Citizens for Universal Ignorance.

[DetlefK]

7. They want creationist scientific experiments? What are we waiting for???

"The lawsuit argues that the new standards will cause Kansas public schools to promote a “non-theistic religious worldview” by allowing only “materialistic” or “atheistic” explanations to scientific questions..."


The curriculum should include designing and performing scientific experiments on the subject of a creationist origin of life-forms.

[AlbertCat]

8. want to instill a belief in their children that “life is a creation made for a purpose.”

So.... do it.... if you can.

But don't drag all the other kids down with yours.

Your dumb kids can forget all that science after school just like you did. What's the prob?

[lastlib]

9. Aw, Geez......

Don't these idjits EVER get tired of being stoopid??!?1?

[lastlib]

10. Here's an update: Suit dismissed

(actually, the article linked in OP is from last year......)

http://ncse.com/news/2014/12/lawsuit-over-ngss-dismissed-0016025

A federal court dismissed a creationist lawsuit seeking to prevent Kansas from adopting the Next Generation Science Standards on the grounds that doing so would "establish and endorse a non-theistic religious worldview." In a December 2, 2014, order ... in COPE et al. v. Kansas State Board of Education et al., Judge Daniel D. Crabtree of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas granted the defendants' motion to dismiss the case.

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Judge Crabtree's decision did not address the content of the complaint, instead finding that that the Kansas state board of education and the Kansas state department of education enjoyed Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity against the suit and that the plaintiffs lacked standing to assert any of their claims, failing to establish any of the three relevant requirements for standing: injury, causation, and addressability.....the lead plaintiff, COPE, Citizens for Objective Public Education, is a new creationist organization, founded in 2012, but its leaders and attorneys include people familiar from previous attacks on evolution education across the country, such as John H. Calvert of the Intelligent Design Network. The Kansas board of education voted to adopt the NGSS in June 2013, and the lawsuit in effect attempted to undo the decision.

(National Center for Science Education)'s Josh Rosenau, who dismissed the lawsuit as "silly" to the Associated Press (September 26, 2013) when it was filed, expressed satisfaction at the outcome. He predicted that even if the plaintiffs had established standing, they would have lost the case: "They were trying to say that anything not promoting their religion is promoting some other religion, and that argument has been repeatedly rejected by the courts."

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at least one defeat for willful ignorance........

[ffr]

11. All offspring are evolutionary by definition

I am so over these anti-evolutionist idiot fucktards!!! Tell them Christina.