Walk Like an Ape?
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Walk Like an Ape?
By Chenoa McKnight | March 29, 2006
If some scientists adopt evolution like it was a religion then why not
allow another "religion" to be taught in schools.
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Do you believe you evolved from an ape? The theory of evolution has long
been an issue of debate, but the question of it's inclusion in high school
science curriculum has recently come to the forefront again.
On February 27, 2006 a bill endorsed by Republican state Sen. Chris
Buttars, failed in the Utah House of Representatives.
"SB96?would have required the State Board of Education to establish
curriculum requirements stressing that the scientific theory about the
origin of species and evolution is not empirically proven," said Tiffany
Erickson and Erin Stewart of the Deseret Morning News.
Sen. Buttars said, "I don't believe anybody in there really wants their
kids taught that their great-grandfather was an ape, and yet you try and
clarify that and they confuse the issue saying that it was going to
challenge all of science."
New York Times reporter Kirk Johnson gave his own opinion about why the
bill did not pass in Utah, "a conservative state with a Legislature
dominated by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
Johnson said, "Some Mormon legislators opposed the bill because they agreed
with Mr. Urguhart that science and religion should remain separate, others
because they thought intelligent design was not in keeping with traditional
Mormon belief."
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