.......LB182
1 ...scientific evidences. Evolution-science includes the
2 ...scientific evidences and related inferences that
3 ...indicate: (a) Emergence by naturalistic processes of the
4 ...universe from disordered matter and emergence of life
5 ...from nonlife; (b) the sufficiency of mutation and natural
6 ...selection in bringing about development of present living
7 ...kinds from simple earlier kinds; (c) emergence by
8 ...mutation and natural selection of present living kinds
9 ...from simple earlier kinds; (d) emergence of man from a
10 ...common ancestor with apes; (e) explanation of the earth's
11 ...geology and the evolutionary sequence by
12 ...uniformitarianism; and (f) an inception several billion
13 ...years ago of the earth and somewhat later of life; and
14 .............(3) Public schools shall mean public secondary
15 ...and elementary schools.
16 .............Sec. 5. Public schools within this state shall
17 ...give balanced treatment to creation-science and to
18 ...evolution-science. Balanced treatment to these two
19 ...models shall be given in classroom lectures taken as a
20 ...whole for each course, in textbook materials taken as a
21 ...whole for each course, in library materials taken as a
22 ...whole for the sciences and taken as a whole for the
23 ...humanities, and in other educational programs in public
24 ...schools, to the extent that such lectures, textbooks,
25 ...library materials, or educational programs deal in any
26 ...way with the subject of the origin of life, man, the
27 ...earth, or the universe.
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