By Timothy Birdnow ——Bio and Archives--April 7, 2009
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Section A. Chapter 170, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 170.335, to read as follows: 170.335. 1. The state board of education, public elementary and secondary school governing authorities, superintendents of schools, school system administrators, and public elementary and secondary school principals and administrators shall endeavor to create an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that encourages students to explore scientific questions, learn about scientific evidence, develop critical thinking skills, and respond appropriately and respectfully to differences of opinion about controversial issues, including biological and chemicalevolution. Such educational authorities in this state shall also endeavor to assist teachers to find more effective ways to present the science curriculum where it addresses scientific controversies. Toward this end, teachers shall be permitted to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of the theory of biological and hypotheses of chemical evolution. 2. Neither the state board of education, nor any public elementary or secondary school governing authority, superintendent of schools, or school system administrator, nor any public elementary or secondary school principal or administrator shall prohibit any teacher in a public school system of this state from helping students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of biological or chemical evolution whenever these subjects are taught within the course curriculum schedule. 3. This section only protects the teaching of scientific information and this section shall not be construed to promote philosophical naturalism or biblical theology, promote natural cause or intelligent cause, promote undirected change or purposeful design, promote atheistic or theistic belief, promote discrimination for or against a particular set of religious beliefs or ideas, or promote discrimination for or against religion or nonreligion. Scientific information includes physical evidence and logical inferences based upon evidence. 4. No later than the start of the 2009-2010 school year, the department of elementary and secondary education shall notify all public school superintendents of the provisions of this section. Each superintendent shall then disseminate to all employees within his or her school system a copy of this section."Now, this sounds innocuous enough, but will doubtlessly raise a ruckus as the materialists struggle to retain their power over the minds of America`s youth. The reason that Darwinian theory stands alone in biological sciences is that the theory (I would call it a vague hypothesis) tolerates no competitors, and the young are indoctrinated into it early on. By the time a young man or woman becomes a researcher or teacher, they have been thoroughly steeped in the notion that Darwinian Natural Selection is inviolate, and they know that they will meet a terrible fate should they disagree with any of the tenants. There is a gag order imposed among academics which silences any criticism of this theory. H.R. 656 is an attempt to change that. But such change cannot be allowed, because an open debate means exposing the nude emperor. Natural Selection is the cornerstone of modern atheistic materialism, and their entire worldview comes crashing down if Darwin should fail. I expect that there will be great anger and furious wrath over this should it pass into law. The rage of people like Richard Dawkins or P.Z. Myers is best explained by another quote by German scientist and satirist Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) "The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect." And indeed there are many in the paleontological and biological communities who feel this very insecurity about what they have been trained to believe. The fundamental assumption of modern science is materialism, and Darwin`s theory is taught as a fact.
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Timothy Birdnow is a conservative writer and blogger and lives in St. Louis Missouri. His work has appeared in many popular conservative publications including but not limited to The American Thinker, Pajamas Media, Intellectual Conservative and Orthodoxy Today. Tim is a featured contributor to American Daily Reviewand has appeared as a Guest Host on the Heading Right Radio Network. Tim’s website is tbirdnow.mee.nu.