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Evolution Revolution

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Bill Dailey

Published: February 5, 2008

After reading Patrick Bohlen's letter "Highlands County School Board Needs To Evolve" it was apparent he is unaware that they have evolved. From ape-like creatures, I've got my doubts. But far from the once unprepared accumulation of parents and teachers who might be deceived by a hidden humanist agenda.

Today Highlands County should stand proud, recognizing the wisdom and knowledge which this professional school board has displayed. This board does not stand alone, but is just one of scores of school boards across the state that views various changes in the New Science Standards as disingenuous and aimed to promote a pagan philosophy. Identifying this misguided teaching has nothing to do with religion, as Mr. Bohlen would have us believe, but rather the inaccuracy of the curriculum itself.

The proposed new science standards have many excellent improvements, but the rhetoric concealed within the evolutionary portion of the new standards could be interpreted as selling a religion rather than teaching science.

For instance, one of the accomplishments prescribed in the new standards under "Evolution and Diversity," we read: "Recognize and describe that fossil evidence is consistent with the idea that human beings evolved from earlier species." First of all, taking into account the DNA variations programmed within the human species, the fossil record shows human beings haven't changed at all.

Darwin himself recognized difficulties with his theory, "Firstly, why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?" With the 100-year-plus search for anything, which might be genuinely transitional, one would have to wonder if Darwin were alive today, would he still believe in the theory he is honored for.

Over the years, with no exceptions, each of the fossil evidences that have been proclaimed as proof that man has evolved from a common ape-like ancestor have all eventually become 100 percent human, 100 percent ape or 100 percent fake. The evolution of species and our common ancestors should be taught as they are seen in nature. Man came from man, birds came from birds and fish came from fish.

And as far as Darwin's theory of a single common ancestor for all life, nothing has changed. It should be taught as it was originally envisioned and as it is seen in nature today, as "bold imagination."

Bill Dailey
Sebring

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