.......LB182
1 ............ Section 1. This act shall be known and may be
2 ...cited as the Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and
3 ...Evolution-Science Act.
4 .......... Section 2. The Legislature finds that:
5 ............ (1) The subject of the origin of the universe,
6 ...earth, life, and man is treated within many public school
7 ...courses, such as biology, life sciences, anthropology
8 ...sociology, and often also in physics, chemistry, world
9 ...history, philosophy, and social sciences;
10 ........... (2) Only evolution-science is presented to
11 ...students in virtually all of those courses that discuss
12 ...the subject of origins. Public schools generally censor
13 ...creation-science and evidence contrary to evolution;
14 .......... (3) Evolution-science is not an unquestionable
15 ...fact of science, because evolution cannot be
16 ...experimentally observed, fully verified, or logically
17 ...falsified, and because evolution-science is not accepted
18 ...by some scientists;
19 ............ (4) Evolution-science is contrary to the
20 ...religious convictions or moral values or philosophical
21 ...beliefs of many students and parents, including
22 ...individuals of many different religious faiths and with
23 ...diverse moral values and philosophical beliefs;
24 ............ (5) Public school presentation of only
25 ...evolution-science without any alternative model of
26 ...origins abridges the United States Constitution's
27 ...protections of freedom of religious exercise and of
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