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It definitely does, unless you think it means that people should be put do death for doing the right thing. The Bible definitely says homosexuallity is wrong. Now, that doesn't mean it only says it's wrong. The Bible is full of contradictions. This is one of the reasons I don't think it is a very effective source to be quoting.
---now about evolution---
As for the person who says that evolution won't work until we find fossils of creatures from the gap between man and ape, umm, I hate to break it to you but a long stream of fossils have been found between ape and man.
Also, Intelligent Design(which is not creationism) is basicly saying "evolution is how things work but God decided how things went", so believing in it is fine, but teaching it in a secular school system would require you to remove God from the equation and basicly teach "evolution is how things work" which is the same as teaching evolution.
Also, the first life evolved from the soup (which by the way, the initial conditions have been simulated and scientists have had basic amino acids and such develop just by hitting the "soup" with electricity, which occurs naturally in the form of lighting, an event that happened more on the early earth) over 300 million years. Do you realize how long that is? Chemical reactions on the small scale (remember that the initial life was bacteria so small that you need special microscopes to see) are usually very quick and 300 million years is a very long time. That means there are an unfathomable number of reactions that took place and the likelyhood of at least one of those producing very very simple life(which then evolves to be more complex) is almost 1.
Even if it weren't so high, the universe is incredibly large, if there was let's say a million planets somewhere in the universe that have the potential for life. The odds of at least one of those having life are insanely high. You might say that why do the other planets matter at all, we're talking about earth? But then you aren't using logic, as the fact is, IF there is a living race that can question how life came to be, it must be on a planet with life. Which means, that if even one planet in the entire universe evolved life, there'd be at least one planet with life and so the whole "how did life come to be on this planet?" question would be meaningless, since, as living creatures, we'd be on one of those planets with life.
Since evolution is an entirely viable theory, (and I mean theory in the scientific sense, where creationism is not trully a theory since there is no evidence to support it), teaching Intelligent Design has no point except to show the existence of God. I'm not saying that God exists or doesn't exist, but we shouldn't be teaching in public schools theories that are designed to show the existence of God. Save that for parents and private schools. Teaching intelligent design in public schools is akin to teaching in social studies not only the wars, but that each war is caused by God for punishment. You may believe God causes wars(or peace for that matter), but it has no place in the school systems.
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