{"id":981,"date":"2009-04-01T08:09:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T12:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=981"},"modified":"2009-05-31T19:54:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T23:54:26","slug":"un-bill-ievable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Un-Bill-Ievable !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just a matter of time before some one decided to challenge another aspect of science other than Evolution. Well folks only in the wonderful state of Florida could that have happened.<\/p>\n<p>Late last night our old friend Sen Storms(R) filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Number_of_the_Beast\">Bill SB 666<\/a>asking for Academic Freedom in the Teaching of Astronomy. In a interview with the local media Storms stated that &#8220;There isn&#8217;t even a theory of astronomy,we can see how the stars are not just randomly scattered in the sky.They are placed there for a purpose.Look at the North Star, it&#8217;s placed exactly in the right\u00c2\u00a0position to guide us at night,our children should be made aware of this.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery.org\/\">Discovery Institute<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Dr Bill Gough a expert in astrology offered support for the Bill. &#8220;It is just a extension of Fine Tuning&#8221; he commented,&#8221;The Universe is obviously Intelligently Designed,any fool can see this,yet these arrogant astronomers\u00c2\u00a0are afraid\u00c2\u00a0to expose our school children to\u00c2\u00a0both side of the controversy.&#8221; &#8220;We have many scientists who are now accepting there is a major flaw\u00c2\u00a0in modern astronomy but are afraid to speak out&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just a matter of time before some one decided to challenge another aspect of science other than Evolution. Well folks only in the wonderful state of Florida could that have happened. Late last night our old friend Sen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=981\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-fP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":556,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=556","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":0},"title":"Senate Bill today?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE III: SB2692 is up now at 10:52 a.m. UPDATE II: Session has started. Senate president just said that they don't like strikeall amendments on the floor, but strikealls that are done to conform to the House version are generally OK. So, my guess is that Storms' anti-evolution bill strikeall\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08&quot;","block_context":{"text":"\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=23"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":568,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=568","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":1},"title":"Fate of the bills","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"What will happen with the differing versions of the deceptively named \"academic freedom\" bills now? (The two pages we need to keep an eye on are this one (House) and this one (Senate).)\u00c2\u00a0 The Senate and House approved very different versions of the bill, and each bill sponsor seems convinced\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08&quot;","block_context":{"text":"\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=23"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":558,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=558","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":2},"title":"News roundup","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Before I get to the news accounts, here is notice that the House bill should get its second reading on Friday. Keep in mind that second reading means that the bill can be amended and debated, but there is no vote. That has to wait until the third reading. Time\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08&quot;","block_context":{"text":"\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=23"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":496,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=496","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":3},"title":"Tracking the bills","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a summary\/tracking post that was updated throughout the Florida legislative session concerning two anti-evolution bills that were introduced in the Senate and House. Fortunately, the bills never made it into law in 2008. STATE SENATE SB 2692 Teaching Chemical and Biological Evolution; Cites act as the \"Academic Freedom\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08&quot;","block_context":{"text":"\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=23"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":552,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=552","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":4},"title":"Early news reports on today&#8217;s tap dance","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Senator Storms' tap dancing has made the news here and there. (edited to add the Palm Beach Post editorial.) Palm Beach Post editorial: Fraudulent evolution bill Translated, the bill wants creationism - disguised as \"intelligent design\" - to have equal billing in classrooms. The bill is a fraud. The staff\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08&quot;","block_context":{"text":"\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=23"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":534,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=534","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":5},"title":"An early account of what happened","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science board member and middle school science teacher Mary Bahr attended today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Senate Judiciary committee meeting to testify against Senate Bill 2692, the deceptively-named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153academic freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bill. The following information is based on my e-mail and phone correspondence with her following the meeting. 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