Religions > Atheism > In the News: Does Seattle group "teach controversy" or contribute to it?
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"Jason Spaceman" |
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31 Mar 2005 09:13:49 AM |
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In the News: Does Seattle group "teach controversy" or contribute to it? |
From the article:
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By Linda Shaw
Seattle Times staff reporter
Three years ago, the Ohio Board of Education invited a small but
influential Seattle think tank to debate the way evolution is taught
in Ohio schools.
It was an opportunity for the Discovery Institute to promote its
notion of intelligent design, the controversial idea that parts of
life are so complex, they must have been designed by some intelligent
agent.
Instead, leaders of the institute's Center for Science and Culture
decided on what they consider a compromise. Forget intelligent design,
they argued, with its theological implications. Just require teachers
to discuss evidence that refutes Charles Darwin's theory of evolution,
as well as what supports it.
They called it "teach the controversy," and that's become the
institute's rallying cry as a leader in the latest efforts to raise
doubts about Darwin in school. Evolution controversies are brewing in
eight school districts, half a dozen state legislatures, and three
state boards of education, including the one in Kansas, which wrestled
with the issue in 1999 as well.
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Read it at
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002225932_design31m.html
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Rev Dr Lenny Flank" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Does Seattle group "teach controversy" or contribute to it? |
31 Mar 2005 01:23:00 PM |
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From the article:
"Meyer, however, says he's a scientist, who starts with scientific
evidence, not the Bible. His goal - a big one - is to change the
very definition of science so that it doesn't rule out the possibility
that an intelligent designer is actively at work."
I sincerely hope the DI bigshots are willing to testify to that in
court.
Like I said, keep them talking long enough, and sooner or later they
shoot themselves in the head every time. <shrug>
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Lenny Flank
"There are no loose threads in the web of life"
Creation "Science" Debunked:
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