# Banning "evolution"

**URL:** <https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425>\
**Category:** RPGC Main Forum\
**Created:** [January 30, 2004, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425 "2004-01-30T09:57:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![demigod](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@demigod](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/demigod)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/1 "2004-01-30T09:57:38Z")

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[Georgia considers banning “evolution”](http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/01/30/striking.evolution.ap/index.html). But what’s really stupid is that besides just changing the word to some silly description, they won’t even really ban it. Doubly stupid: once for trying, the other for trying badly.

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**Author:** ![Green\_Mage](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@Green\_Mage](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Green_Mage)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 10:05am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/2 "2004-01-30T10:05:30Z")

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This is probably the best thing Georgia could’ve done. Without evolution, they can now safely copulate with their relatives without all those nasty side effects of in-breeding.

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**Author:** ![Xelopheris](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/b5a626/32.png) [@Xelopheris](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Xelopheris)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 10:38am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/3 "2004-01-30T10:38:51Z")

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Haha, nice one GM.

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**Author:** ![Nulani](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/nulani/32/41_2.png) [@Nulani](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Nulani)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 10:59am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/4 "2004-01-30T10:59:52Z")

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Why don’t they ban time while they’re at it? That way they won’t have to worry about any changes at all. Nothing at all in fact. And we would be spared from stupid ideas like this.

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**Author:** ![kaseli](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/kaseli/32/76_2.png) [@kaseli](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/kaseli)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/5 "2004-01-30T11:01:14Z")

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Didn’t they already try this? Wasn’t there some case where a teacher was banned from teaching because he taught evolution?

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**Author:** ![StarStorm](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/starstorm/32/36_2.png) [@StarStorm](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/StarStorm)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 11:08am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/6 "2004-01-30T11:08:42Z")

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I often wonder why they ban evoloution. It would make sense that god would use it, really.

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**Author:** ![Amerycinsycho](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Amerycinsycho](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Amerycinsycho)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/7 "2004-01-30T11:14:18Z")

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On a side note for you all my US history professor is a firm believer in creationism. Apparently the Earth has been around for a mere 6000 years…:hyperven:

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**Author:** ![Yar\_Kramer](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/yar_kramer/32/59_2.png) [@Yar\_Kramer](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Yar_Kramer)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 11:15am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/8 "2004-01-30T11:15:19Z")

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> Originally posted by Nulani   
> Why don’t they ban time while they’re at it? That way they won’t have to worry about any changes at all. Nothing at all in fact. And we would be spared from stupid ideas like this.

![](http://www.angelfire.com/comics/yarkramer/images/YarKramer32-stand.gif) Yeah, somebody should make the glass clock from Thief of Time, and use it to destroy history!

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**Author:** ![Genericangstyposter](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@Genericangstyposter](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Genericangstyposter)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 11:35am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/9 "2004-01-30T11:35:26Z")

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Dude, they aren’t banning evolution. They’re banning the word evolution. So essentially they aren’t doing a fucking thing. =p

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**Author:** ![PC\_Glenton](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/pc_glenton/32/43_2.png) [@PC\_Glenton](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/PC_Glenton)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/10 "2004-01-30T11:50:24Z")

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While the idea is rather… intresting, I can see where she is coming from.

A good chunk of Georgia, if my info is correct, is Baptist, and very conservative. What I see here isn’t a ban, but just a compromise.

Poorly conceived, but I am sure she means well.

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**Author:** ![Heaven\_s\_Soldier](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/heaven_s_soldier/32/65_2.png) [@Heaven\_s\_Soldier](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Heaven_s_Soldier)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/11 "2004-01-30T12:03:53Z")

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So they are stoping people from saying evolution, just because of their religion. That is just plain stupid. Then again what else could you really expect from Georgia. (No offense to anyone here, who may live there)

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**Author:** ![Gilgamesh](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Gilgamesh](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Gilgamesh)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/12 "2004-01-30T12:10:15Z")

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Its happened before, I’ve heard it mentioned last year.

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**Author:** ![The\_984](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/the_984/32/5_2.png) [@The\_984](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/The_984)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/13 "2004-01-30T12:15:54Z")

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Actually, if people read the article at all, it would merely change the state wordings. Teachers could and would still say evolution. Books would still have the Theory of Evolution rather than some cumbersome wording. So, no, they’re not banning evolution. They’re not preventing anyone from saying evolution.

CNN and demigod phrased Kathy Cox’s idea incorrectly. It seems like the headline was chosen partly as a way of reenforcing the idea that all Southerners are backwards cousin-marriers as GM so narrow mindedly demonstrated.

And given the criticism from both sides, I doubt it’ll go anywhere.

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**Author:** ![Nebagram](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/nebagram/32/52_2.png) [@Nebagram](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Nebagram)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/14 "2004-01-30T12:50:00Z")

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That’s the most pointless and retarded thing I ever saw :thud: it’s like declaring “evolution” some kind of uber-swear word, it doesn’t change the facts but at least they’ll have their heads so far up their descended-from-apes-and-face-it fundaments that they won’t have to face just how irrational they’re being :thud: :thud: :thud:

Well, as stated before, soon enough they’ll have in-married enough times for the gene pool to turn into a stagnant pond, then various mutations will claim them and that’ll be the end of that chapter.

Oh, hang on a seconds, mutations are the same as genetic and biological changes over time, aren’t they? And what’s the word that best sums that up? EVOLUTION! :ah-ha!:

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**Author:** ![Curtis](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Curtis](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Curtis)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 12:53pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/15 "2004-01-30T12:53:01Z")

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I don’t care how its worded, its obviously a step backwards, its being motivated by religious beliefs and fear of knowledge, and it makes the whole South look bad.

And Cyber, the fact that they have to ban the word evolution, or whatever they’re doing, so that nobody gets their feelings hurt shows how frickin’ backwards they are. We have to stop condoning behavior like this.

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**Author:** ![Ren](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/ren/32/58_2.png) [@Ren](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Ren)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/16 "2004-01-30T13:39:07Z")

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Yeah, they’re just abnning a word. But I think this is, anyway, imposing religion on other people, which should be illegal.

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**Author:** ![Evangelion](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Evangelion](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Evangelion)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/17 "2004-01-30T13:42:18Z")

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Oh good Lord CC for once I am ever agreeing with you on something, in reference to your recent post.

I read this over at Planetsocks earlier today and it sounds quite silly. 80% of the people involved, apparently want to change it back to “evolution.”

I dont see the controvery anyways, it’s an idiotic headline over the change of a word to a sentence.

EDIT: Evolution can have nothing to do with religion. If the religious students don’t like being taught that way, they can complain, or just take it in stride and look at the world in a different way. That’s how I always saw it.

Double EDIT: It did not say in any paragraph it was being motivated by religious beliefs.

> Cox repeatedly referred to evolution as a “buzzword” Thursday and said the ban was proposed, in part, to alleviate pressure on teachers in socially conservative areas where parents object to its teaching

Triple EDIT: Because I am turning into a grammer whore.

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**Author:** ![Nulani](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/nulani/32/41_2.png) [@Nulani](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Nulani)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/18 "2004-01-30T13:45:51Z")

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Why don’t they just revert to 11th Edition Newspeak while they’re at it? That way they wouldn’t have any controversial or opinion expressing words at all.

It seems pretty pointless.

And yes I read the whole article, it would just have been really boring and not very controversial to say. It seems pretty pointless. Which it is, since there is no real difference: They’re just giving the schools an extra expense and the students a phrase to read and learn instead of a pretty self explainatory word.

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**Author:** ![Genericangstyposter](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@Genericangstyposter](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Genericangstyposter)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/19 "2004-01-30T13:46:12Z")

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You know, what exactly is the conflict between evolution and creationism? Can’t you say that God created evolution? Does “seven days” really mean seven days or does it mean eons?

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**Author:** ![Curtis](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Curtis](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Curtis)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/banning-evolution/6425/20 "2004-01-30T13:47:42Z")

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The conflict is that they want creationism to be taught as a science, an “alternative” theory to evolution. Creationism taught as philosophy or theology is fine with me. But not the way they want it to be taught. The school doesn’t, but the people they’re catering too with this ridiculous wording change do.

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