The Board of Education has taken a shot at making the state’s curriculums a little more scientific. Starting in 2008, State Assessment Tests will require students to know that Darwin’s theories have been placed under much doubt due to evidence obtained in fossils and molecular biology. Contrary to the desire of many to teach Evolution as “More than a theory,” teachers will now find themselves having to teach that the origins of life may not lie where they’ve been previously teaching.

In 7th grade I learned that theories remain theories until proven with empirical (measurable), repeatable results. I also learned that Louis Pastuer proved life could not come from non-living things. A few chapeters further on in the book, they told us that life came from non-living things in some big bang. Now people want to call a theory they’ve been trying to prove for decades (with no success) “more than a theory?”

Kudos to Kansas, though it’s a crying shame that so many people are bellyaching about requiring teachers to not teach an unproven theory (and one that is based on Spontaneous Generation–which was proven false over a hundred years ago) as fact.

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It seems that the Vatican has decided to “embrace science” by supporting the claims of evolution. Their reasoning? That the theory is compatible with the Bible. With a jab at the “fundamentalists” for wanting to “give a scientific meaning to words that had no scientific aim,” he claims that Genesis wasn’t meant to be taken literally, but figuratively.

Why go there? Once the validity of the Bible is undermined, there is no reason to take anything else whatsoever in the Bible as solid truth. You can’t place Peter at the head of the church, (goodbye, Papacy). You can’t even take Jesus seriously. Might as well kiss Christianity goodbye. After all, they could just be nice stories told to say something more vague about God. Please, people.

Read this excerpt from an article I just pulled up about spontaneous generation:

From the time of the ancient Romans, through the Middle Ages, and until the late nineteenth century, it was generally accepted that some life forms arose spontaneously from non-living matter. Such “spontaneous generation” appeared to occur primarily in decaying matter. For example, a seventeenth century recipe for the spontaneous production of mice required placing sweaty underwear and husks of wheat in an open-mouthed jar, then waiting for about 21 days, during which time it was alleged that the sweat from the underwear would penetrate the husks of wheat, changing them into mice. Although such a concept may seem laughable today, it is consistent with the other widely held cultural and religious beliefs of the time.

“Laughable.” Yes, you all nod your heads and agree. Those misinformed people from the middle ages. It’s a good thing science has made such progress so that we don’t have to believe such nonsense. Correction: so we can now consider ourselves enlightened for believing such nonsense.

What!?

That’s right, the fundamental basis to evolution is that life came out of non-life. I don’t have space to debate this here, but here’s a good link to a great exposition of the incredible presuppositions that evolution is based on.