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Old 05-21-2013, 03:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Eliseus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
the denial of a "higher being" is idiotic.
The scientific community in the United States and elsewhere overwhelmingly disagrees. There are exceptions, and they are extremely uncommon.

http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/20...dstatement.pdf

http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6024&page=1

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kitzmi...Page_83_of_139

Regarding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisia..._Education_Act

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However, scientific societies collectively representing millions of scientists have opposed the bill, and every scientific society that has given a position about the bill has opposed it.[7][8] Alan Leshner, the executive publisher of Science sent a letter to the Speaker of the House of Louisiana condemning the bill as the "latest effort to insert religious, unscientific views into science classrooms,"[9] writing elsewhere that the bill would "unleash an assault against scientific integrity, leaving students confused about science and unprepared to excel in a modern workforce."[10]
And a list of the scientific organizations rejecting pseudoscientific creationism:

http://ncse.com/media/voices/science

Every major scientific organization in the world, and nearly every proper scientist... is an idiot.