| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1901 | Jonathan Byrd | The seperation of church and state is the foundation for freedom of religion in this country. In fairness to all citizens of all backgrounds and beliefs, religion has no place in public education. You can't teach any religions, uless you are willing to teach them all. |
| 1902 | Holly Byrd | |
| 1903 | Anonymous | |
| 1904 | Frank Kujawa | |
| 1905 | Kelly Duncan-Metzger | Religion has no place in the public school sysytem aside from student-led, extracurricular groups. The US educational system has become the laughing stock of industrialised nations, and Florida ranks among the worse of the states in terms of educational excellence. We need to reverse this trend, and throwing our schools back into the dark ages of theology-based education is not the way to do it! Keep the FACT in our classrooms and leave the theology where it belongs -- in the philosophy class, the home, and the church, |
| 1906 | Dr. John H. Epler | |
| 1907 | Randel White | |
| 1908 | Sandy Hubbard | |
| 1909 | Gerry Trouba | |
| 1910 | Anonymous | |
| 1911 | Samantha Muka | |
| 1912 | James O'Gara | |
| 1913 | Eldra Solomon | The new Science Education Standards as written will improve science education in Florida. They will help Florida students succeed in college science classes and increase the probability that they will major in science, engineering, or mathematics. The new standards will help our students be more competitive in the 21st century job market and contribute to national productivity. We have a national crisis in science education. Passage of Florida’s new Science Education Standards will be a step toward solving this crisis. |
| 1914 | John Perry Baumlin | |
| 1915 | Howard C Lucas,MD | I have read the standards and completely agree with them. Evolution is not about monkeys. It is essential for the understanding of the universe from the big bank, the formation of chemical elements in the stars, our solar system, the earth, the development of life and us. |
| 1916 | Evelyn R. Barritt, PHD, RN (retired) | Excuse me, Tallahassee, but aren't we still a part of the U.S.A. where we cherish the seperation of church and state?
What is this nonsense about a "statement of scientific neutrality" proposed to the State Board of Education?
Since scientists do not and should not determine religious definitions and terms, why should religionists define scientific terminolgy and definitions?
This "infusion" of code words into our legal and educational systems HAS to stop now! |
| 1917 | R. Michael Underwood | I urge the Florida Board of Education to adopt the revised Public School Science Education Standards as drafted. |
| 1918 | Ronald D Sutton | I do not support attempts by religious fundamentalists to diminish the theory of evolution by suggesting that it is "only a theory". All of our science is "only a theory", and implications that this status somehow casts doubt on the validity of science should be resisted as yet another superstitious attack on our educational system. |
| 1919 | Anna Katherine Morales | It is mandatory to teach evolution in public schools as the main concept in all science classrooms. Our nation was founded on the separation of church and state, and therefore it needs to stay that way. A vast majority of research in numerous fields apply evolution as the primary theory behind it. If we want the graduates of Florida schools to be able to compete in current society and be accepted to universities, then we must teach them evolution! |
| 1920 | Dr. Neil J Williams | |
| 1921 | Richard J. Rolfes | |
| 1922 | Anonymous | Evolution needs to be taught in our public schools. Florida's science standards need to be updated and revised. |
| 1923 | Kim Kilcourse | |
| 1924 | Diane Smith | |
| 1925 | William Norsworthy | For the future generations of Floridians who will need to have a strong understanding of their world, please help them by adopting the proposed science standards. I can help my own grandchildren, but you can help all of Florida's children in this important way. |
| 1926 | James O'Gara | |
| 1927 | Anonymous | |
| 1928 | Brenden T. Craig | |
| 1929 | Daniel Falvo | It would be a tragedy to see our nation's students receive a scientific foundation that is not based on science itself. |
| 1930 | Paul Wayne Smothers | BY ALL MEANS TEACH THE SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION!
The body's design belongs to Evolution,
the soul's design to God
Most Christians are Catholic. Therefore most Christians have no problem with the Pope's position on Evolution. There are only a few "flat earth" Christians that deny the truth as it develops from scientific investigation, and even most of them have accepted a "non flat earth" and will come around to (God's) truth some day. |
| 1931 | Jean Marue Falvo | |
| 1932 | William Falvo | |
| 1933 | Cynthia J. Meininger | |
| 1934 | Allan Greene | Evolution, like gravity, relativity, plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading, is BOTH a theory AND a fact. NEITHER intelligent design NOR creationism are EITHER theories OR facts in the sense in which something is conventionally thought of as a theory in science. They are NOT EVEN HYPOTHESES in the scientific sense. Why not? BECAUSE IN SCIENCE, TESTABILITY IS THE GOLD STANDARD, and NEITHER intelligent design NOR creationism are testable. They are NOT testable BECAUSE THEY ARE IN PRINCIPLE FAITH, NOT SCIENCE, and what MAKES a theory a SCIENTIFIC theory is, its TESTABILITY. Faith is for CHURCHES, MOSQUES, TEMPLES, SYNAGOGUES, but NOT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS SUPPORTED BY MY TAX DOLLARS. And THOSE WHO SAY SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IS A MYTH ARE THEMSELVES EITHER IGNORANT OR, IN SOME CASES, LYING, because the First Amendment was INSPIRED by the ORIGINAL FIGHT of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison for the Virginia Religious Freedom Statutes, on the basis of which the ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE of the First Amendment was later developed by James Madison. Thomas Jefferson in response to the Danbury Baptists in 1802 wrote them that he could NOT seek to get official recognition (as they wished) for Jesus Christ in the Constitution BECAUSE THE CONSTITUTION WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO ESTABLISH A "WALL OF SEPARATION" BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE, and THOSE WERE JEFFERSON'S WORDS, NOT MINE. Trying to smuggle a NON-TESTABLE FAITH INTO PUBLIC TAX-SUPPORTED SCHOOLS is BOTH against insuring kids get GOOD SCIENCE TAUGHT THEM, and it is ALSO AGAINST THE FIRST AMENDMENT. And BOTH so-called "Ingelligent Design" AND "Creationism" are simply an expression of FAITH, NON-TESTABLE in nature, while EVOLUTION IS TESTABLE, and has, in fact, overwhelmingly passed thousands and millions of tests thousands and millions of times. Neither so-called "intelligent design" nor "creationism" can make that claim. REJECT PUTTING NON-TESTABLE CLAIMS AS "THEORIES" INTO PUBLIC SCHOOLS, for such non-testable claims as "intelligent design" are NOT EVEN LEGITIMATELY SCIENTIFIC THEORIES. But EVOLUTION IS. And evolution is ALSO A FACT. As the late eminent paleontologist, Stephen Jay Gould, put it, evolution is BOTH a theory AND a fact -- as is, for instance, GRAVITY, EINSTEIN'S SPECIAL AND GENERAL THEORIES OF RELATIVITY, PLATE TECTONICS AND SEA FLOOR SPREADING, THE CELL THEORY IN BIOLOGY, etc., etc., etc. All these are BOTH theories AND facts. And they are ALL TESTABLE, and have PASSED THE TESTS. REJECT putting "intelligent design" and "creationism" in public schools, and REJECT the obfuscation of the THEOCRATIC PROPAGANDISTS WHO WANT TO ESTABLISH AN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN TALIBAN RIGHT HERE INSIDE AMERICA who try to obscure the issue by trying to make it into an "equal time-for-all-theories" issue. "Intelligent design" is NOT EVEN a theory, let ALONE a fact.--Allan Greene |
| 1935 | Eric Scott | Evolution by natural selection is a scientific theory. That means that it is one of the most robustly supported and thoroughly documented scientific concepts ever advanced. Few scientific concepts or proposals actually "make it" to become fully-fledged theories. The fact that evolution has done so, coupled with the fact that this theory has successfully withstood more than a century and a half of scientific cross-checking and verification, emphasizes the power and the fundamental of the theory. Do we have all the data? No -- but ther will always be gaps in our knowledge, about everything. Do we stop studying astronomy because we haven't found every last star in the heavens? Do we stop using math because some theorems haven't been fully worked out? Of course not. There are true gaps in the data supporting evolution, but these are to be expected -- and they are growing smaller every day. But *there are no "gaps" in the THEORY*! Evolutionary theory is our most powerful explanation for what happens in biology. If the Florida Board of Education votes to call evolution a "theory", I hope they realize that from a scientific standpoint they are nailing their colors to the mast that evolution is a fantastically robust and deeply supported scientific concept. |
| 1936 | j harvin | |
| 1937 | Catherine Wright | |
| 1938 | Mark Weber | PLEASE keep science Science and let religion be taught in the churches.
THANKS!! |
| 1939 | Natalie Wright | |
| 1940 | William R Clough | Speaking as a Minister of the Gospel, I am wholeheartedly supportive of strong science standards, including Evolution, in Florida Public Schools.
There is no conflict between science (Evolution) and Christianity and claiming that there is is a false dicohtomy. There is a conflict between a literal interpretation of the first two chapters of Genesis and science but plenary verbal inspiration has only been a doctrine of one, small section of the church for a couple of centuries; it is not a necessary interpretation and is not the biblical interpretation of the vast majority of the church in history or in the world today. |
| 1941 | Iris Leekey | |
| 1942 | Julie P Striegel | |
| 1943 | Joseph and Joan Selement | We are embarrassed by our so-called Board of Education in Nassau County for not supporting the proposed science standards. Please restore Florida to the list of states that teach standard 21st century science to high school students... including evolution theory. |
| 1944 | Rochelle S. Epperson | I cannot believe in this day and age that states are inclined to make these changes IGNORING the masses of data that refute intelligent design and its cohorts. Students must understand how the facts get into their textbooks.... not a single fact was placed there through the study of intelligent design. You cant even study something that is not fact based but is belief-based!!! Wake up FLORIDA, you will be a laughing stock just like Kansas! |
| 1945 | Quinn Upkes | There is nothing scientific about religion. Evolution is blatantly correct, don't go backwards, teach our children facts!!! |
| 1946 | Shelly R. Scott | It is absolutely absurd that a State agency even consider changing science standards due to the outcry of a religious group, ANY religious group. The shrieks of the superstitious have pierced the sanity of the Rule of Law known as "Separation of Church and State". It is a disgrace and an embarrassment to the thinking people of this great state to allow religious rhetoric into the classroom. |
| 1947 | Hipatia Donoso | |
| 1948 | Sophia Diaz-Fonseca | |
| 1949 | Jerrold H. Zar | I support science education based upon scientific principles and scientific evidence. |
| 1950 | Greg Talley | |