RMOLLISE wrote:
Unfortunately, he's NOT making this up. And the guy in question dang
shore ain't a Rastaman, either. ;-)

A Texas lawmaker _is_ apparently pushing this. What's next? I imagine
that will be demands that geocentrism must be taught alongside
heliocentrism in public schools in order to be FAIR? ;-)

Google being my friend, I found further detail about this controversy:

http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archiv..._chisum_h.html

It turns out that Representative Warren Chisum does not believe in
evolution, all right.

And, being a Young Earth Creationist, he also denies the Big Bang.

And so, in advancing his argument against the Big Bang, he made
reference to a web site on which evidence appeared which he considered
credible that the idea of a Big Bang 15 billion years ago derives not
from science, but rather from the religious notions of the ancient
Pharisees.

As it happened, somewhere else *on that web site*, to which
Representative Chisum made reference - which, of course, is not proof
he read the *entire* web site - are arguments against the Copernican
theory.

This may speak volumes about the degree of caution Warren Chisum
exercises when referring to sources that happen to support his
beliefs. But it says nothing about his personal beliefs regarding the
heliocentric theory, and it is entirely possible that he is perfectly
willing to reconcile it with his Scriptural beliefs.

John Savard