{"id":25258,"date":"2024-09-20T19:12:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T02:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25258"},"modified":"2024-09-20T19:14:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T02:14:47","slug":"promoting-atheism-in-the-classroom-federal-court-rules-that-evolution-is-not-a-religious-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/promoting-atheism-in-the-classroom-federal-court-rules-that-evolution-is-not-a-religious-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Atheism in the Classroom: Federal Court Rules That \u2018Evolution Is Not A Religious Concept\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ipaNodeIntro\">A federal court\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/faith\/2024\/09\/04\/teaching-evolution-in-schools-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently dismissed a lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0filed by Christian parents against the state of Indiana. The lawsuit claimed \u201cteachers violate religious freedom law when they promote \u2018the atheist religion\u2019 by teaching students about evolution.\u201d The court \u201callowed the science education standards to remain in place,\u201d claiming that \u201cevolution is not a religious concept.\u201d But were they right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, first we have to understand that there are two different kinds of science: observational and historical science. Observational science is directly testable, observable, and repeatable. It\u2019s this kind of science that uses the scientific method and develops technology and medical innovation. That\u2019s very different from historical science. Historical science deals with the past and is therefore not directly testable, observable, or repeatable because it\u2019s the past\u2014it\u2019s gone!<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/harbingersdaily.com\/promoting-atheism-in-the-classroom-federal-court-rules-that-evolution-is-not-a-religious-concept\/\">harbingersdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court\u00a0recently dismissed a lawsuit\u00a0filed by Christian parents against the state of Indiana. The lawsuit claimed \u201cteachers violate religious freedom law when they promote \u2018the atheist religion\u2019 by teaching students about evolution.\u201d The court \u201callowed the science education standards to remain in place,\u201d claiming that \u201cevolution is not a religious concept.\u201d But were they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/promoting-atheism-in-the-classroom-federal-court-rules-that-evolution-is-not-a-religious-concept\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Promoting Atheism in the Classroom: Federal Court Rules That \u2018Evolution Is Not A Religious Concept\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6zo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25259,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25258\/revisions\/25259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}