This is not up for local debate, this is an illegal activity that ANYONE has the right and power to bring up to the proper authorites.
What Beau did is against the LAW. Not to mention a total abomination to discovery and learning. Learning Theology isnt the same as learning a science. Theology demands such and such be true without question, only reflection on its demands as to how one should continue to adhere to said demands.
However science doesnt demand anything, it exists for to be found. In order to do so however a demanding sequence of events must occur, that you seek out information, question, test, and retest your findings. You must make careful analysis of data and make predictions of outcomes to events within your scope of study or project. You must also seek out others that arent affiliated with you to make sure that your conclusions are not biased in any way and the conclusions you have are consistant with the data and procedures youve set forth.

I hope that clears something up for you

WoW
1) To miss Loyola, appealing to authority when youre not an authority is a falacy. In you mentioning that youre at Loyola is using that falacy in hoping to spark yet another, an emotional appeal. Granted the whole "devistated" thing is an emotional appeal and did seem an exaggeration. However your ignorance on the subject abounds.
a) It is ILLEGAL for creationism to be taught in a science class, so your comment of confidence is void
b) It is unethical to do illegal activities, again your confidence is not only void but now suspect
c) In so teaching creationism, he disrespected the laws of the land, the US and the State, now your confidence shows to be outright bias
Now Id like to address the "out of proportion". A minimum of 6 states have been sued to get creationism out of their laws, Pa, Tn,Tx, that I can think of off hand. Texas is key, a Senator recently demanded " someone needs to stand up to these scientest with their science". This guy is trying to not only get creationism taught in Texas but every school in the US. Texas is the countries leading purchaser of school books in the nation and the publishers will bend to their whims on what is in those books. The Illinois school board last year had to REJECT books from the publisher because of the INCORRECT documentations in those books as directed from Texas officials.
There is a HUGE problem in this country in that so many creationists do not understand what science is and what religion isnt.

Don't be so condescending! "Sorry, Lady." ?? Why are the 'faithful' so threatened by this topic? I agree with separation of church and state but evolution is a theory that you can choose to accept or not based on your belief system. It seems to me that if you are comfortable in your faith and what you believe, hearing challenging theories should allow you the forum to further discuss and reinforce your values. Being rude and trite with others whose opinions you don't share just makes you seem scared and then kids wonder, "Is there any truth in this that they are afraid of it?"

To Christine Baustert
I dont think that saying "sorry lady" is an ad hom in any respect, CH doesnt know who this lady is and she's a lady, so his comment doesnt seem to be condecending.

Now It looks like you might want to get invovled with a discussion, one major problem here is that the terms must be understood by all parties. The term theory in this case refers to a "scientific theory" . You might need a science dictionary or you can use wiki to see what this means. Basically this type of theory refers to the facts and the laws of nature that show the subject matter to be true. That the laws and evidences may change however, the theory is fact and is not something to "believe in", its fact. Once again a ST is the group of facts that show something to be true, not that someone just thought something up.
As to faith, faith can not be a ST since there is no evidence for what you believe, if there was, there wouldnt be a need for faith of the subject.
Faith in a subject is only testable to the point that you want to beleive in something, however your wants and desires do not make the subject true nor can it show what you beleive is true.
So the "theory of evolution" isnt something to be comfortable with, nor to just accept or deny, its fact. The facts within the theory are the best representation that mankind can offer to show how evolution works, I invite you to read about it.

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Recent advances in technology give new evidences that darwin couldnt even dream of, geneology, anthropolgy, chemisty have all advanced much over the last 200 yrs. All of which not just confirm evolution as fact but are part of the facts themselves.

If you have any questions and are interested in learning more about the subject, please contact me and I can forward information, videos etc to you to help you in your understanding of what the world has to offer mankind

Tim, yours is a common question about evolution. The answer is it simply doesn't work that way. Things don't necessarily disappear just because something better comes along. As an adult I've lived in 13 different apartments and three different houses. Each new home was preferable to the previous one for a number of reasons. And yet those previous homes all still exist and provide comfortable homes for different people.

Many millions of species of everything from single-celled organisms to plants to animals to our ancestors have gone extinct because they failed to adapt or were hunted to extinction by better adapted creatures or were just unlucky. But that doesn't mean that everything becomes extinct when something better comes along.

Just as you and your spouse won't die the instant your child is born, a parent species doesn't die when a genetic mutation occurs in its offspring. All ape species have evolved over time, just as man has evolved over time. Every species is constantly trying to improve upon itself. Dogs are evolving. Fish. Birds. All trying to create a better version of themselves through procreation.

Tim we didnt evolve from apes, we are apes. This classification is not something of debate, its a class of organisms in which we are as a species part of.

Now from what did we evolve from ? Well I dont think it was an ape, since anything resembling a common ape these days didnt exist 10-15 million years ago.
Evolution doesnt demand that a species go extinct, it just suggests that natural selection allows for the proagation of traits that are homogenious to the enviroment, survive.
Example, Wolves exist and dogs come from Wolves. Whales exist that come from Hippos that come from Whales that are exticnt.
In addition to your querry, why would some evolve and others not, one simple answer is migration, another is climate changes, and another is food sources. To understand better you might want to draw a venn diagram and see a mulitude of possibilites arise.

True scientists don't make "sweeping blanket statements." They draw reasoned conclusions based on empirical evidence. And there is a huge difference between trying and succeeding. I'm sorry the simple explanation of why species don't cease to exist when they evolve didn't work for you. It may be time to crack a book on the subject. Bill Bryson writes beautifully on the subject in "A Brief History of Practically Everything." Just remember that evolution is an imperceptibly slow process that occurs over millions of years. You can't see it happening right before your eyes. It is only by looking at the evidence of the ages over time that it can be truly appreciated. So in the "previous homes" example, you've got to consider that each dwelling would deteriorate over millions of years, not decades. Which would be awesome because then I wouldn't have to paint this spring.

Tim I think like Christine above youre taking offence when none was offered.
CH is just offering you a good suggestion so that you may actually debate the subject matter with some understanding of the subject matter.
Yourself and Christine above are perfect examples of why creationism must not be taught in science class's and that teachers need to pay attention to the learning difficulties of their students and the school board must help the teachers in addressing these fundemental problems.
These facts of life need not be a mystery, nor hidden away because of mysticism.

Standing up and being heard can be a great thing, and is demanded in a society like ours, however it seems that knowing anything on the subject matter isnt required when speaking. And thats the problem. Those voices are just tossed into the garbage due to the lack of knowledge.

Its like a 1st grader talking about teeth, theyll just demand a raise for the price of a tooth from the tooth fairy

And I would suggest a medal of honor for Rob Sherman, he keeps his cool through these things.

There is going to be another debate with Rob and a minister of the moody bible church in Chicago, if anyone is interested, contact me or Rob for details.

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Now teaching creationism isnt just something out of christianity, there are many creation myths, and everyone of them a myth. The native american indians have many creation myths, and you might be surprised of the Hindu creation myth if youre a christian.

I would hope that something like this will spark an interest in teens to go out of their way to learn something. Your world view may be shattered once you understand better what the world has to offer you

Carmel doesnt teach creationism and their science program at least used to be very good. They do have an manditory religion class, however I dont think creationists would care for it because it sheds a whole new light on the bible than theyre used to.
Their style isnt of indoctrination, its more of achedemic study of cherry picked parts of the bible. Although the class is manditory it isnt overbearing nor does it blow out of proportion the OT in demanding a literal interpretation of the translations.
They will take any denomination, at least they used to, Im not sure about Atheists tho, but they are extremely tolerant to other religions. The catholic teachings and teachers are, however the catholics themselves can be quite the opposite.

Perhaps Ana you dont know that modern evangelical christians dont believe catholics are christian, kinda strange since the catholics wrote the book you might say :)
Ive even met young catholics that didnt think they were christian, kinda funny isnt it ...

If like a true skeptic you need evidence, the DEBATE FAITH chatroom is open 24/7 365 as long as the servers are up and running, those darn hamsters must be unionized, they keep think they can take carrot breaks ...

Just follow where my name leads you :)

Oh Ana I forgot to add, Beau did get a punishment. His teaching record has a HUGE black stain on it now. He basically has only 2 options now, that is tow the line at LHS, or get a lesser paying job at some evangelical school. For him to get a job at a public school is going to be very hard, unless he moves to Texas ...