Florida's plan to require evolution be taught in science class is being called "godless".

Jonathan Smith, the Lakeland resident and representative of National Center
of Science Education, was 100 percent correct when he said the standards
change in forcing the evolutionary theory on students are "much deeper and
complex, and aren't just about evolution."

The downward spiral humanity is on is pathetically evolutionary, and is
producing generations of godless adults.

It's certainly not true science. It is a lot of confusion along with
imagination and a wishful doctrine from confused people who cannot accept
creationism.

I trust we have more competent leaders who will stop this nonsense being
perpetrated on our students.

If The Ledger article is true ("Plan To Require Evolution to Be Taught in
Schools," Oct. 24,) students will be taught to disbelieve what their parents
teach them at home. Jonathan Smith, one of the writers of the new teaching
standards, said, "It (new standards) closed the door on ambiguity" about
evolution. "There isn't both sides. There is only one side as far as science
is concerned."

Citizens have been told for years that teachings of God have no place in
schools, and that such teaching should be left to parents and churches.
We've given in to that position, but now Mr. Smith and his kind are
promoting a totally godless belief.

Why should we (surveys show that most Americans believe in a Creator) pay
for consultants, administrators and teachers in our schools to promote a
belief that denies the existence of a Creator? Why pay for them to contend
that what we believe and teach in our homes and churches is a lie?

If the state Department of Education is going to vote on the new standards
in January, as The Ledger article said, they need to hear from us. Comment
at www.flstandards.org.

For the first time, standards in science have been written that would require Florida public-school students be taught about evolution. The new standards released last week say that evolution will be taught beginning in the third grade. Current standards do not use the word evolution, preferring the term "biological changes over time".

The state Department of Education is expected to approve the new standards in January.

The proposal will likely fuel a backlash from those who believe in intelligent design, the idea that life began as a result of an intelligent force or being. The new science standards exclude intelligent design.

A 45-member committee appointed by the state Department of Education began revising the science standards in May in response to a failing 2005 report on Florida's public school science curriculum by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington-based nonprofit group. The Fordham study said Florida's standards are "sorely lacking in content," "naive," and that life sciences and evolution are given "shorter shrift than any of the other" science topics.

"The superficiality of the treatment of evolutionary biology alone justifies the grade 'F,'" the report stated.

What would happen on Election Day if every Christian marked on his ballot "None of the above" and then added, "I want to know God's choice." What would happen if every Christian prayed to his Father before it is time to vote and asked for his will to be done? He is waiting to show us his will, but we need to appeal to him with heartfelt prayers and fasting, both in tears and in the fear of the Lord.

It is certainly evident that our country, America the beautiful, is going down fast, and no one knows where to turn. We are all like sheep that have gone astray. We are allowing Satan to take our families. We the people must rise up and be counted, as we realize that "a divided nation cannot stand."

The power-hungry, multimillion-dollar bureaucrats now in office do not know the needs of the common man, but God does. Jesus walked, and worked, among men for 33 years, and then died on the cruel cross at Calvary. He knows hunger, poverty, pain, sickness and death.

We all need to register to vote for this next election. We need to vote for people who will allow God to be God.

By doing so, we might see the Ten Commandments posted in every classroom across the nation. If anyone opposes our right to serve our God openly, they need to be told, "This is our God-given right, and it cannot be taken away from us." They would probably take their children out of our schools, but they will still need to be educated.