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Religions > Atheism |
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"Jason Spaceman" |
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06 May 2005 04:09:14 AM |
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In the News: Evolution hearings open in Kansas |
From the article:
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TOPEKA, Kansas (Reuters) -- A six-day courtroom-style debate opened
Thursday in Kansas over what children should be taught in schools
about the origin of life -- was it natural evolution or did God create
the world?
The hearings, complete with opposing attorneys and a long list of
witnesses, were arranged amid efforts by some Christian groups in
Kansas and nationally to reverse the domination of evolutionary theory
in the nation's schools.
William Harris, a medical researcher and co-founder of a Kansas group
called the Intelligent Design Network, posed the core question about
life's beginnings before mapping out why he and other Christians want
changes in school curriculum.
School science classes are teaching children that life evolved
naturally and randomly, Harris said, arguing that this was in conflict
with Biblical teachings that God created life.
"They are offering an answer that may be in conflict with religious
views," Harris said in opening the debate. "Part of our overall goal
is to remove the bias against religion that is currently in schools.
This is a scientific controversy that has powerful religious
implications."
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Read it at
http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/05/05/evolution.hearings.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest
or http://tinyurl.com/ab4bc
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Mike Dworetsky" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Evolution hearings open in Kansas |
06 May 2005 05:09:45 AM |
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"Jason Spaceman" <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in message
news:pr4m7150jr4nb4tji8k8e0cb9gvnicsmp6@4ax.com...
From the article:
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TOPEKA, Kansas (Reuters) -- A six-day courtroom-style debate opened
Thursday in Kansas over what children should be taught in schools
about the origin of life -- was it natural evolution or did God create
the world?
The hearings, complete with opposing attorneys and a long list of
witnesses, were arranged amid efforts by some Christian groups in
Kansas and nationally to reverse the domination of evolutionary theory
in the nation's schools.
William Harris, a medical researcher and co-founder of a Kansas group
called the Intelligent Design Network, posed the core question about
life's beginnings before mapping out why he and other Christians want
changes in school curriculum.
School science classes are teaching children that life evolved
naturally and randomly, Harris said, arguing that this was in conflict
with Biblical teachings that God created life.
"They are offering an answer that may be in conflict with religious
views," Harris said in opening the debate. "Part of our overall goal
is to remove the bias against religion that is currently in schools.
This is a scientific controversy that has powerful religious
implications."
----------------------------------------------------
Read it at
http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/05/05/evolution.hearings.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest
or http://tinyurl.com/ab4bc
J. Spaceman
Of course, the ID advocates will swear on a stack of King James Version
Bibles that their claimed scientific breakthrough has absolutely nothing to
do with their religious beliefs. Keep digging, guys, the hole is getting
deeper.
--
Mike Dworetsky
(Remove "pants" spamblock to send e-mail)
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| User: "Jason Spaceman" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Evolution hearings open in Kansas |
06 May 2005 05:13:02 AM |
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Also see 'In Kansas, A Sharp Debate on Evolution' at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/05/AR2005050501927.html
From the article:
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Educators Consider Intelligent Design
By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 6, 2005; Page A01
TOPEKA, Kan., May 5 -- Debating a question that the scientific
establishment considers settled, Kansas education authorities put
evolutionary theory on trial Thursday in a hearing marked by sharp
exchanges over Earth's origins and what students should be taught in
science class.
Scientists who support the idea of intelligent design, a set of
assumptions that challenges established scientific thinking, told an
approving Kansas State Board of Education subcommittee that modern
Darwinian theory relies too much on unproven reasoning. Gaps in the
science, they argued, leave open the possibility that a creator, or an
unidentified "designing mind," is responsible for earthly development.
It would not be far-fetched, said William S. Harris, a Kansas City
researcher who favors intelligent design, to conclude that DNA itself
is the work of an intelligent being. Students, he said, should be told
that.
Outside the auditorium, scientists and educators dismissed the
arguments as claptrap.
"It's clear from the beginning that this is not a real science
discussion. This is a showcase for intelligent design," said Jack
Krebs, vice president of Kansas Citizens for Science, which is
boycotting the four days of hearings. "They have created a straw man.
They are trying to make science stand for atheism so they can fight
atheism."
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J. Spaceman
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