Utah Votes 'No' to Darwin's Critics

NewbieV writes "An article in Tuesday's New York Times notes that proposed legislation which would have 'stress[ed] that not all scientists agree on which theory regarding the origins of life, or the origins or present state of the human race, is correct;' has failed by a 46-28 vote in a Republican-controlled state House of Representatives."

Allow me to be the first to say...

[camusflage]

THANK GOD! :)

Re:Good Riddance To Yet More Bad Rubbish

[MonkeyDluffy]

"There are a number of influential legislators who believe you evolved from an ape," Buttars said following the vote. "I didn't."

I don't the apes would want to claim Buttars as a descendant, either.

In other news

[saskboy]

In other news, Crest has fought off a push to include the following warning on their toothpaste tubes:
Only 9 out of 10 Dentists agree that flouride toothpaste reduce cavities. Since there are dissenting Dentists, you're probably better off gargling with Coke.

Re:I'm not really surprised

[Kerstyun]

he's going to ask me about how I treated my wife

Just the one?

Re:GO AWAY AC

[saskboy]

TMM posts insightful, and the full spectrum of positively moderatable comments for everyone to enjoy. If you don't like reading him, it's not hard to set him as a Foe, and set foes at a low reading threshold. But you, having not yet evolved from an ape-like species probably didn't realize that was possible. While you're at it, add me as a foe too if you don't like reading my posts.

Ape-descended legislators...

[Tackhead]

> > There are a number of influential legislators who believe you evolved from an ape," Buttars said following the vote. "I didn't."
>
> I don't the apes would want to claim Buttars as a descendant, either.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western United States lies a small unregarded salt pond. Adjacent to this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight is an utterly insignificant little state whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think creationism is a pretty neat idea.

> > "Rep. Stephen Urquhart, R-St. George, led the charge to defeat the bill, saying he didn't understand how science contradicted faith." Urquhart successfully gutted the bill, leaving only one bland sentence that read: "The State Board of Education shall establish curriculum requirements relating to scientific instruction." Then the House defeated even that as a way of stopping the Senate from reviving the issue.

In deference to one million years of human evolution, Rep. Urquhart did not try to pick fleas off Senator Buttars. Utahns are not proud of their ancestry and never invite them around for dinner.

/with apologies to Douglas Adams.

Thank God!

[rdmiller3]

Thank God they voted this down.

(Heheheh. Couldn't resist.)

I am an atheist.
I am an atheist!
God knows, I am an ATHEIST!!
-- Nikita Khrushchev

Re:Please Stop Posting These

[mugnyte]

Dude, your post is a complete mad-lib for each and every topic on Slashdot...or any web site anywhere. If you can't take the heat, click elsewhere.


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Have fun!

Re:saints preserve us

[Fulcrum of Evil]

"How do you feel about having your child instructed in what's 'true' by a [Mormon/Muslim/Catholic/Protestant/Jew/Satanist] teacher?"

Sure, as long as he's not Episcopalean.

Re:Enough Tolerance

[TapTapTheChisler]

Pull up your pants, your truthiness is showing