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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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20 Aug 2005 04:42:31 PM |
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Discovery Institute |
Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/national/21evolve.html?pagewanted=all
By JODI WILGOREN
The Discovery Institute is the ideological and strategic backbone
behind the eruption of skirmishes over science in school districts and
state capitals across the country.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Discovery Institute |
21 Aug 2005 01:23:36 AM |
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In article <1124574151.018716.48110@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:
From:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/national/21evolve.html?pagewanted=all
"Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive
By JODI WILGOREN
SEATTLE - When President Bush plunged into the debate over the teaching
of evolution this month, saying, "both sides ought to be properly
taught," he seemed to be reading from the playbook of the Discovery
Institute, the conservative think tank here that is at the helm of this
newly volatile frontier in the nation's culture wars.
After toiling in obscurity for nearly a decade, the institute's Center
for Science and Culture has emerged in recent months as the ideological
and strategic backbone behind the eruption of skirmishes over science in
school districts and state capitals across the country. Pushing a "teach
the controversy" approach to evolution, the institute has in many ways
transformed the debate into an issue of academic freedom rather than a
confrontation between biology and religion. "
<more>
What's this "teach the controversy"? Is the average high school student
adequately prepared to debate evolution vs, creationism? Teach them the
science first. That's what science class is for. They can learn about
creationism in their churches or at home.
If parents don't want their kids to learn science, they can send them to
a religious school, or home school them themselves. It's wrong to waste
time teaching mythology to kids in place of science.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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