Why not throw in the Easter bunny as well, because you'll find the same amount of scientific proof. This reeks of partisanship, and church-state relations.
Supporters of the law say its goal is to encourage healthy skepticism among students. “Critical thinking, analysis fosters good science,” Robin Zimmer, a biotechnology consultant and affiliate of a creationist organization, wrote in the Nashville Tennessean in March.
Now how is learning something faith based going to foster critical thinking???????? I think it fosters, "I don't care what facts you have, I'll believe what they want me to believe". Seriously? I'm fine with anyone being skeptical, but at least have some means to back up WHY your skeptical.
Why aren't they teaching this too, then: When describing the creation of the "heavens and the earth," the Quran does not discount the theory of a "Big Bang" explosion at the start of it all. In fact, the Quran says that "the heavens and the earth were joined together as one unit, before We clove them asunder" (21:30). Following this big explosion, Allah "turned to the sky, and it had been (as) smoke. He said to it and to the earth: 'Come together, willingly or unwillingly.' They said: 'We come (together) in willing obedience'" (41:11). Thus the elements and what was to become the planets and stars began to cool, come together, and form into shape, following the natural laws that Allah established in the universe.
The Quran further states that Allah created the sun, the moon, and the planets, each with their own individual courses or orbits. "It is He Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon; all (the celestial bodies) swim along, each in its rounded course" (21:33).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... story.htmlOh ya, in before, "what do I care what happens in Tennessee".