Religions > Atheism > In the News: Kansas Begins Hearings on Diluting Teaching of Evolution
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"Jason Spaceman" |
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05 May 2005 08:47:18 PM |
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In the News: Kansas Begins Hearings on Diluting Teaching of Evolution |
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By JODI WILGOREN
Published: May 5, 2005
TOPEKA, May 5 -In the first of three daylong hearings characterized
here as the direct descendant of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a
parade of Ph.D.'s testified today about the flaws they find in
Darwin's theory of evolution, transforming a small auditorium into a
forum on one of the most controversial questions in education and
politics: How to teach about the origin of life?
The hearings by the Kansas State Board of Education- one part science
lesson, one part political theater - were set off by proposed changes
to Kansas's science standards intended to bring a more critical
approach to the teaching of Darwinism. The sessions provided perhaps
the highest-profile stage yet for the emerging movement known as
intelligent design, which asserts that life is so intricately complex
that an architect must be behind it. Critics argue that intelligent
design has no basis in science and is another iteration of
creationism.
Scientists who defend Darwinism are boycotting the hearings, called by
the state school board's conservative majority. Nonetheless, a lawyer
representing them peppered the other side's experts with queries both
profound and personal.
"Can you tell us, sir, how old you believe the Earth is?" the lawyer,
Pedro Irigonegaray, asked William S. Harris, a chemist, who helped
write the proposed changes to the state standards.
"I don't know," Dr. Harris replied. "I think it's probably really
old."
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Read it at
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/05/education/06cnd-evolution.html?hp&ex=1115352000&en=99646bddc8de7257&ei=5094&partner=homepage
or http://tinyurl.com/amd7s
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Elf M. Sternberg" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Kansas Begins Hearings on Diluting Teaching of Evolution |
05 May 2005 09:52:43 PM |
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Jason Spaceman <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> writes:
"I don't know," Dr. Harris replied. "I think it's probably really
old."
My, there's a response to warm the heart.
Elf
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| User: "Rev Dr Lenny Flank" |
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06 May 2005 05:11:35 AM |
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Elf M. Sternberg wrote:
Jason Spaceman <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> writes:
"I don't know," Dr. Harris replied. "I think it's probably really
old."
My, there's a response to warm the heart.
ID certainly is the future of, uh, cutting edge science, huh.
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Lenny Flank
"There are no loose threads in the web of life"
Creation "Science" Debunked:
http://www.geocities.com/lflank
DebunkCreation email list:
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| User: "Matt Giwer" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Kansas Begins Hearings on Diluting Teaching ofEvolution |
05 May 2005 11:31:58 PM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
"I don't know," Dr. Harris replied. "I think it's probably really
old."
Reminds of me when Frist the doctor turned Republican congressrat was cornered on The Daily Show.
"Do you really think AIDS can be transmitted by saliva, doctor?"
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through Hollywood? You get a Holocaust. Hollywood never gets
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book review http://www.giwersworld.org/israel/willing-executioners.phtml a7
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| User: "Dylan" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Kansas Begins Hearings on Diluting Teaching of Evolution |
05 May 2005 09:59:04 PM |
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Thanks, Spaceman, for bringing these news items to my attention. I'm
extremely interested in the fortunes/misfortunes of Discovery
Institute's "wedge strategy."
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