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caraher

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4. Now it's a religious studies bill?

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 02:15 PM

Jan 2012

As amended yesterday, the bill reads,

The governing body of a school corporation may offer instruction on various theories of the origin of life. The curriculum for the course must include theories from multiple religions, which may include, but is not limited to, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Scientology.

So now it sounds like, if you want to teach the science of the origin of life, you must also discuss at least two religious versions of the origin of life.

I suppose it also implies that if you were teaching a course on a religion, if you mention the origin of life, you then have to bring in another religious account of the creation of life.

Evidently, the hope is that opening the door to non-Christian accounts of life's origins will pretty much keep any school corporation from trying to teach creationism.

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