Evolution debate continues (CNN/AP) {Salt Lake City, UT}

[eppur_se_muova]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- House lawmakers scuttled a bill that would have required public school students to be told that evolution is not empirically proven -- the latest setback for critics of evolution.

The bill's sponsor, Republican state Sen. Chris Buttars, had said it was time to rein in teachers who were teaching that man descended from apes and rattling the faith of students. The Senate earlier passed the measure 16-12.

But the bill failed in the House on a 28-46 vote Monday. The bill would haverequired teachers to tell students that evolution is not a fact and the state doesn't endorse the theory.
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"I don't believe that anybody in there really wants their kids to be taught that their great-grandfather was an ape," Buttars said.
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more at: http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/02/28/teaching.evolution.ap/index.html

No need to give them reason to suspect they are, huh?

ON EDIT: Whoops, duped this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2485382&mesg_id=2485382

I looked for "evolution" not "Darwin".

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. I got my BA in Anthropology in Salt Lake City

That was in 1969 and the debate was going on hot and heavy then.

You have to remember that Mormons believe that the world was created about 5,000 years ago complete with a geologic record.

The difference then was that the people in the valley didn't have access to all of the media that we have now. So it was a lot easier for them to sell their version of creation. No one knew any better.

It's harder now with the internet and all the TV coverage.

[BlueJazz]

2. Uhg! Mongo no understand...

Mongo like Youtah.