New category for religious attiitude toward evolution:secularism

Religious attitudes towards evolution go by various names--theistic evolution,creationism ,New atheism, accommodationism, agnosticism , etc. Now I propose a new category ,secularism, that represents the complete absence of any religious attitude towards evolution (even agnostics have some kind of attitude towards the relationship between religion and evolution). I always wanted evolution and intelligent design to be like that

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LSEA repeal effort fizzles

Louisiana's Senate Bill 70, which would have repealed the state's antievolution law, was shelved on a 5-1 vote by the Senate Education Committee on May 26, 2011, despite the wide support for it from the scientific and educational communities — including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Louisiana Science Teachers Association, and forty-three Nobel laureate scientists. Harold Kroto, a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996, was quoted as comparing a vote against the repeal to "requiring Louisiana school texts to include the claim that the Sun goes round the Earth."

I think it is a result of a growing distrust of scientists

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