The Bayou Buzz website while finding a place on Google's News source lacks website design and congruency. Here is the headline and news following. Concerning Creationism in Louisiana this week: The idea that teaching creationism will slow economic development is laughable.
Will “Creationism” be taught in elementary and secondary schools in Louisiana?
That will be the question as the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education discusses the issue perhaps as early as Tuesday.
Some opposing the idea believe it will be a real setback for economic development. Last year, the concept became law and signed by Governor Bobby Jindal. How it is applied depends upon the guidelines applied by the BESI Board Board. There are complaints that creationism is teaching religion in the classroom. There are also fears that the guidelines adopted could lead to lawsuits.
I thought the comment by Written by Neil Thomas on 1/13/2009 on the same page was interesting relating to Bobby Jindahl's education.
The viewpoint that evolution is the only scientific method of explaining life is improper. The idea that intellectuals believe in evolution and only dolts accept creationsism is misguided. For purposes of education, both can be taught without introducing religion into the classrooms. Creationism is but an alternate theory. Both evolution and creation are theories, with neither theory confirmed as an absolute scientific fact. Be mindful that Bobby Jindal is a Rhodes scholar with an advanced degree in Biology. All religions explain the universe through creation. Thus, no one religion is being advanced for purposes of academic discussion in the classroom
The fact that Bobby Jindal is a Rhodes scholar is fascinating in this discussion of origin beliefs. As I have posted in previous blog posts, creationism does not dumb down students in academia. Not one scientist will suggest absolutely that life arose from non-life as a fact. Science will not allow this to be stated in such terms. The prophet Isaiah quoted the Lord's words:
For this is what the LORD says - he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited he says: "I am the LORD, and there is no other. Isa 45:18
