Creationism Back on the Front Burner - Oo-la-la, This Time in France

[QueenOfCalifornia]

Council of Europe to vote on creationism next week
Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:47pm EDT
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor

PARIS (Reuters) - Europe's main human rights body will vote next week on a resolution opposing the teaching of creationist and intelligent design views in school science classes.

The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly will debate a resolution saying attacks on the theory of evolution were rooted "in forms of religious extremism" and amounted to a dangerous assault on science and human rights.

The resolution, on the agenda for October 4, says European schools should "resist presentation of creationist ideas in any discipline other than religion." It describes the "intelligent design" argument as an updated version of creationism.

Anne Brasseur, an Assembly member from Luxembourg who updated an earlier draft resolution, said the vote was due in June but was postponed because some members felt the original text amounted to an attack on religious belief.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070925/sc_nm/europe_creationism_dc

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Religious extremism = human rights violations.

They remember the Crusades and Inquisition over there. If only we did...

[Initech]

3. Yeah, no kidding.

I get pissed as hell whenever I see the religious fundamentalists refer to Iraq as a holy war. It isn't.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. "postponed because some members felt the original text amounted to an attack on religious belief."

She says it like it's a bad thing or something.

[Orsino]

4. Sounds more like *banning* creationism is on the agenda.

Our politicians look for ways to sneak it in. Their seem to be trying to keep it out.

[MrScorpio]

5. Looks like Fascism is quickly creeping into the Fifth Republic

These are dark times

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Leave it to Europe to nip the religious bullshit in the bud.

It's totally fucking stupid that ANYONE even needs to talk about creationism and how to fight it. It should be on the same shelf with "turtles all the way down" and flat earth. It shouldn't even get the time of day, and it's a terrible sign of our idiocy and assholeness that it even gets debated in the public sphere at all.