A high school physics and chemistry teacher has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the The Blue Mountain School District in the Middle District of Pennsylvania for teaching evolution.
[UPDATE: Read the complaint.]
Tom Ritter claims that he isn't necessarily endorsing creationism or intelligent design, but says evolution is flawed because it promotes atheism … which he says is a religion (see the clever video at the end of this article about the Atheist Religion). And religion, according to Ritter, cannot be taught in the public schools.
In Ritter's words, here's his argument:
Evolution is Unscientific.
"The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity." — Richard Dawkins, famous Atheist
Biology studies organisms. It can also explain how organisms got that way, but studying organisms does not require explaining how they got that way, and the theory of evolution is bad science.
Evolutionists cannot demonstrate that three critical points are even possible, let alone that they actually happened:
(1) No one has demonstrated that life can be created from non-life. (Reports of artificial DNA do not alter this fact. Life is still required.)
(2) No one has demonstrated that a new "sexual species" can be created. (Since the definition of species is contested, for these purposes it is defined as an organism that can breed with its own kind and produce fertile offspring, but cannot breed with its ancestors.)
(3) Evolutionists theorize the human brain evolved from lower forms. Over 50 years into the age of computers, machines can crunch numbers far better and faster than humans, recognize and use language and tools, and beat us in chess. Yet science has yet to build even a rudimentary computer that can contemplate its own existence, the hallmark of the human brain. (Contemplating your existence is best understood as imagining what will remain after your death.) And no animal, no matter how "intelligent," can do this either.
Ask anyone who espouses evolution if these three points are not true.
If evolution is unscientific, why teach it? Because no Creator means no God. In other words, evolution taught without a possible alternative is Atheism.
Now Atheism rests on an article of faith (A strong belief that cannot be proven but is nonetheless believed).
Therefore Atheism is a religion.
And it is illegal to teach religion in the public schools.
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