TOM Ritter, who taught physics and chemistry for over a decade, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Blue Mountain School District in the Middle District of Pennsylvania in the US, where he resides.
The complaint in Ritter v. Blue Mt. School District alleges teaching that the only explanation for life is evolution (without the possibility of a Creator) amounts to the promoting of atheism, which in turn amounts to teaching of a religion.
The plaintiff has objected to paying taxes to support the school district and has asked the court to find that ‘the Blue Mt. School District is an illegal body so long as it teaches atheism, and thus is not entitled to pursue any further actions.’
Ritter has also filed a ‘brief’ in support of his complaint and a copy of his school district tax bill along with a document arguing that evolution is unscientific.
In his argument he has put forward three points:
(1) No one has demonstrated that life can be created from non-life. (Reports of artificial DNA do not alter this fact. Life is still required.)
(2) No one has demonstrated that a new “sexual species” can be created. (Since the definition of species is contested, for these purposes it is defined as an organism that can breed with its own kind and produce fertile offspring, but cannot breed with its ancestors.)
(3) Evolutionists theorize the human brain evolved from lower forms. Over 50 years into the age of computers, machines can crunch numbers far better and faster than humans, recognize and use language and tools, and beat us in chess. Yet science has yet to build even a rudimentary computer that can contemplate its own existence, the hallmark of the human brain. (Contemplating your existence is best understood as imagining what will remain after your death.) And no animal, no matter how “intelligent,” can do this either.
In his complaint, Ritter says: “Ask anyone who espouses evolution if these three points are not true.
“If evolution is unscientific, why teach it? Because no Creator means no God. In other words, evolution taught without a possible alternative is atheism.
“Now atheism rests on an article of faith (A strong belief that cannot be proven but is nonetheless believed). Therefore atheism is a religion. And it is illegal to teach religion in the public schools.”
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