LB1821 ...students and their parents, guaranteeing freedom of
2 ...belief and speech for students, preventing establishment
3 ...of theologically liberal, humanist, nontheist, or atheist
4 ...religions, preventing discrimination against students on
5 ...the basis of their personal beliefs concerning creation
6 ...and evolution, and assisting students in their search for
7 ...truth. The Legislature does not have the purpose of
8 ...causing instruction in religious concepts or making an
9 ...establishment of religion.
10 .............Sec. 4. As used in this act, unless the context
11 ...otherwise requires;
12 .............(1) Creation-science shall mean the scientific
13 ...evidences for creation and inferences from those
14 ...scientific evidences. Creation-science includes the
15 ...scientific evidences and related inferences that
16 ...indicate: (a) Sudden creation of the universe, energy,
17 ...and life from nothing; (b) the insufficiency of mutation
18 ... and natural selection in bringing about development of
19 ...all living kinds from a single organism; (c) changes only
20 ...withing fixed limits of originally created kinds of plants
21 ...and animals; (d) separate ancestry for man and apes; (e)
22 ...explanations of the earth's geology by catastrophism,
23 ...including the occurrence of a worldwide flood; and (f) a
24 ...relatively recent inception of the earth and living
25 ...kinds:
26 .............(2) Evolution-science shall mean the scientific
27 ...evidences for evolution and inferences from those
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