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Religions > Atheism |
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"Jason Spaceman" |
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22 Nov 2004 05:15:42 PM |
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In the News: God or science? |
From the article:
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God or science?
Ninth-grade biology teachers in Dover, Pa., must include 'intelligent design' in
their instruction. Observers say it is a sign of what's to come.
By Mark Sappenfield and Mary Beth McCauley
DOVER, PA. ? In the boldest strike against the teaching of evolution in more
than a decade, the school board of this one-stoplight farming town has tilted
its textbooks against virtually the entire scientific establishment - and
brought home a lesson from this month's presidential election.
By mandating that ninth-grade biology teachers include "intelligent design" in
their instruction, board members set a precedent last month. Never before has a
school district decided to offer intelligent design, which suggests that only
the action of a higher intelligence can explain the complexities of evolution.
Moreover, say observers, it is a sign of what's to come.
Religious conservatives have battled against evolution theory in classrooms
since the Scopes trial of 1925. Now, they are finding fresh purpose in the
conservative resurgence so evident on Election Day, as well as in a new
strategy of attacking evolution without mentioning God. The result is a handful
of high-profile cases nationwide that challenge Darwin's place in the
curriculum and presage a new offensive in America's culture war.
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Read it at http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1123/p11s02-legn.html
J. Spaceman
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My email address (notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org) is fake. Email sent to it
will only get caught in my spam tarpit.
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| User: "Eros" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: God or science? |
23 Nov 2004 07:26:10 PM |
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Jason Spaceman <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in message news:<bpydnSZHZuqs6z_cRVn-hQ@rogers.com>...
From the article:
-------------------------------------
God or science?
Ninth-grade biology teachers in Dover, Pa., must include 'intelligent design' in
their instruction. Observers say it is a sign of what's to come.
By Mark Sappenfield and Mary Beth McCauley
DOVER, PA. ? In the boldest strike against the teaching of evolution in more
than a decade, the school board of this one-stoplight farming town has tilted
its textbooks against virtually the entire scientific establishment - and
brought home a lesson from this month's presidential election.
By mandating that ninth-grade biology teachers include "intelligent design" in
their instruction, board members set a precedent last month. Never before has a
school district decided to offer intelligent design, which suggests that only
the action of a higher intelligence can explain the complexities of evolution.
Moreover, say observers, it is a sign of what's to come.
Religious conservatives have battled against evolution theory in classrooms
since the Scopes trial of 1925. Now, they are finding fresh purpose in the
conservative resurgence so evident on Election Day, as well as in a new
strategy of attacking evolution without mentioning God. The result is a handful
of high-profile cases nationwide that challenge Darwin's place in the
curriculum and presage a new offensive in America's culture war.
----------------------------------------
Read it at http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1123/p11s02-legn.html
J. Spaceman
I'd really love to see the syllabus for that course. How one could
possibly teach a religiously-based assertion as science is beyond me.
The phrase;- "It could only happen in America", springs to mind. (No
offence to our US participants.)
EROS.
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"Intelligent Design is not so much a competing theory as a
distraction. I liken these groups, such as Discovery Institute, to
schoolyard bullies that are pushing their way to the head of the line,
they don't do laboratory science. They don't spend their millions in
private donations on test-tubes or DNA analysis machines, they spend
it on their PR machines, pushing on uneducated school board members,
to get their ideas into the classroom." -- Prof. Sarah Pallas,
Georgia State University.
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| User: "fencingsax" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: God or science? |
24 Nov 2004 07:06:59 AM |
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(Eros) wrote in message news:<ab0de77f.0411231739.e79de87@posting.google.com>...
Jason Spaceman <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in message news:<bpydnSZHZuqs6z_cRVn-hQ@rogers.com>...
From the article:
-------------------------------------
God or science?
Ninth-grade biology teachers in Dover, Pa., must include 'intelligent design' in
their instruction. Observers say it is a sign of what's to come.
By Mark Sappenfield and Mary Beth McCauley
DOVER, PA. ? In the boldest strike against the teaching of evolution in more
than a decade, the school board of this one-stoplight farming town has tilted
its textbooks against virtually the entire scientific establishment - and
brought home a lesson from this month's presidential election.
By mandating that ninth-grade biology teachers include "intelligent design" in
their instruction, board members set a precedent last month. Never before has a
school district decided to offer intelligent design, which suggests that only
the action of a higher intelligence can explain the complexities of evolution.
Moreover, say observers, it is a sign of what's to come.
Religious conservatives have battled against evolution theory in classrooms
since the Scopes trial of 1925. Now, they are finding fresh purpose in the
conservative resurgence so evident on Election Day, as well as in a new
strategy of attacking evolution without mentioning God. The result is a handful
of high-profile cases nationwide that challenge Darwin's place in the
curriculum and presage a new offensive in America's culture war.
----------------------------------------
Read it at http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1123/p11s02-legn.html
J. Spaceman
I'd really love to see the syllabus for that course. How one could
possibly teach a religiously-based assertion as science is beyond me.
The phrase;- "It could only happen in America", springs to mind. (No
offence to our US participants.)
Unfortunately true.
EROS.
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"Intelligent Design is not so much a competing theory as a
distraction. I liken these groups, such as Discovery Institute, to
schoolyard bullies that are pushing their way to the head of the line,
they don't do laboratory science. They don't spend their millions in
private donations on test-tubes or DNA analysis machines, they spend
it on their PR machines, pushing on uneducated school board members,
to get their ideas into the classroom." -- Prof. Sarah Pallas,
Georgia State University.
.
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| User: "fencingsax" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: God or science? |
24 Nov 2004 06:58:11 AM |
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(Eros) wrote in message news:<ab0de77f.0411231739.e79de87@posting.google.com>...
Jason Spaceman <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in message news:<bpydnSZHZuqs6z_cRVn-hQ@rogers.com>...
From the article:
-------------------------------------
God or science?
Ninth-grade biology teachers in Dover, Pa., must include 'intelligent design' in
their instruction. Observers say it is a sign of what's to come.
By Mark Sappenfield and Mary Beth McCauley
DOVER, PA. ? In the boldest strike against the teaching of evolution in more
than a decade, the school board of this one-stoplight farming town has tilted
its textbooks against virtually the entire scientific establishment - and
brought home a lesson from this month's presidential election.
By mandating that ninth-grade biology teachers include "intelligent design" in
their instruction, board members set a precedent last month. Never before has a
school district decided to offer intelligent design, which suggests that only
the action of a higher intelligence can explain the complexities of evolution.
Moreover, say observers, it is a sign of what's to come.
Religious conservatives have battled against evolution theory in classrooms
since the Scopes trial of 1925. Now, they are finding fresh purpose in the
conservative resurgence so evident on Election Day, as well as in a new
strategy of attacking evolution without mentioning God. The result is a handful
of high-profile cases nationwide that challenge Darwin's place in the
curriculum and presage a new offensive in America's culture war.
----------------------------------------
Read it at http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1123/p11s02-legn.html
J. Spaceman
I'd really love to see the syllabus for that course. How one could
possibly teach a religiously-based assertion as science is beyond me.
The phrase;- "It could only happen in America", springs to mind. (No
offence to our US participants.)
Unfortunately, noone else is willing to tolerate these people.
EROS.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Intelligent Design is not so much a competing theory as a
distraction. I liken these groups, such as Discovery Institute, to
schoolyard bullies that are pushing their way to the head of the line,
they don't do laboratory science. They don't spend their millions in
private donations on test-tubes or DNA analysis machines, they spend
it on their PR machines, pushing on uneducated school board members,
to get their ideas into the classroom." -- Prof. Sarah Pallas,
Georgia State University.
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