A federal judge in Atlanta has ruled that stickers placed on Cobb County textbooks regarding evolution are unconstitutional. The stickers read, in full: “This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered.”
Judge Clarence Cooper has a problem with the above benign statement regarding evolution:
His conclusion, he said, “is not that the school board should not have called evolution a theory or that the school board should have called evolution a fact.”
“Rather, the distinction of evolution as a theory rather than a fact is the distinction that religiously motivated individuals have specifically asked school boards to make in the most recent anti-evolution movement, and that was exactly what parents in Cobb County did in this case,” he wrote.
So if the Cobb County school board cannot call evolution a theory, and they cannot call it a fact, exactly what can they call it, Your Honor?
The fact is that evolution is not a fact; it is a theory, and one that has yet to be conclusively proven. This is all the “religiously motivated individuals” Judge Cooper scoffs at are trying to say. Christians simply want the government to acknowledge that evolution is not fact, has not been proven, and we do not wish to see our tax dollars used to indoctrinate our children in to believing it is such.
Perhaps Judge Cooper needs to read the Constitution yet again. There is no separation of church and state in the Constitution. The First Amendment reads: “Congress shall make no law…” Congress, Judge Cooper. Last time I checked, the Cobb County school board didn’t qualify as being the legislative body for the rest of the nation. Finally, Judge Cooper, the First Amendment says “freedom of religion”, not freedom from religion.