LB182
1 ...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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