ACLU to Kansas school district: Cancel creationist assemblies about Dinosaurs

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The American Civil Liberties Union has warned a southwest Kansas school district against holding mandatory student assemblies that feature a creationist group.

“Teaching or otherwise promoting creationism is, simply put, unlawful,” the ACLU wrote in a letter to Hugoton Public Schools superintendent Mark Crawford on Friday. “As the District is surely aware, the federal courts have been unequivocally clear that efforts to inject religious beliefs regarding the origin of life into public school science curricula are constitutionally impermissible, no matter what form they take.”

Hugoton Public Schools invited Creation Truth Foundation’s founder Dr. G. Thomas Sharp to teach the “Truth about Dinosaurs” at two assemblies next week. At least one of the assemblies will be mandatory for all students and teachers.

The group has created teaching materials “explaining the origins, extinction and possible existence of dinosaurs” from a Biblical view and believes the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex walked the Earth as early as 100,000 years ago rather more than 65 million years ago. In a lecture uploaded to YouTube last year, Sharp criticized scientists for ignoring the great flood of the Bible.

“We respectfully request the District take immediate and concrete steps to remedy these problems,” the ACLU concluded. “The first step would be to cancel the planned mandatory school assemblies now set for next week.”

However, superintendent Crawford has said he will not call off the assemblies. He told The Kansas City Star the assemblies will not promote creationism, despite the beliefs and mission of the Creation Truth Foundation.

“I agree with the ACLU, in that, if a mandatory all-school assembly where creationist truths or creationist beliefs were expressed, that would be inappropriate public-school content, and that is not the case,” Crawford said. “It’s completely and totally school appropriate.”

[|Zach|]

It isn't science.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by Raiderhader

Wait a minute, I keep being told this scientific FACT. So now which is it? Fact, or theory?

Great, another person who doesn't understand what the word theory means in relation to science.

[BucEyedPea]

I think it's high time atheists fund their own schools the way some religions fund their own schools.
If they really want to be free of this material.

[Wildcat2005]

Originally Posted by Raiderhader

Wait a minute, I keep being told this scientific FACT. So now which is it? Fact, or theory?

Scientific Theories are working models comprised of facts
Theories dont become facts and visa versa

But in order for an idea to reach theory status, it must of been published in a peer reviewed journal and have an overwhelming amount of evidence and facts to support it

[Brando]

Hey I got an idea. Save the brainwashing for Sunday school. It's bad enough that churches don't pay taxes
Let's not waste my tax dollars on the sky daddy and his only begotten easter bunny.

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by Raiderhader

Wait a minute, I keep being told this scientific FACT. So now which is it? Fact, or theory?

You got it. You discovered the dirty little secret. I guess we can go ahead and forget all about evolution now.

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

Great, another person who doesn't understand what the word theory means in relation to science.

A new one seems to pop up in every thread like this.

[KILLER_CLOWN]

Originally Posted by mlyonsd

Creationists are almost as dangerous as global warming scientists.

Dangerous to the status quo whereas the latter is a danger to our very existence.

[KILLER_CLOWN]

Ahhh the old religion disguised as science, hmmm nothing new to see here move along.

[KILLER_CLOWN]

Originally Posted by Wildcat2005

There is no such thing as a "missing link"
Every species is an intermediate of where it came from and what it will become

Modern apes are not ancestors to humans
Species dont morph into already existing species; this isnt pokemon

The progressions that have lead to the modern day human are not a mystery
It is all laid out plain as day in the fossil record and more importantly in the genetic codes

I love the goalposts that constantly move, it's like arguing with Al Gore.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by Brando

Hey I got an idea. Save the brainwashing for Sunday school. It's bad enough that churches don't pay taxes
Let's not waste my tax dollars on the sky daddy and his only begotten easter bunny.

Holy shit a Brando sighting!

[KILLER_CLOWN]

Q: Where would we be without the creator?

A: You wouldn't exist

next........

[Brando]

Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN

Q: Where would we be without the creator?

A: You wouldn't exist

next........

We would be sitting here bullshitting about creationism and the chocolate penii.

[Brando]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

Holy shit a Brando sighting!

Good to see you too Dave!

[notorious]