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"Jason Spaceman" |
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21 Aug 2003 03:54:42 AM |
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In the News: Panel backs off evolution debate |
From the article:
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MONROE - The Union County school board on Tuesday flirted with, then
backed away from, a more-than-century-long debate questioning
evolution's place in science education.
Under discussion in the board's meeting was a proposal to ask the
state to revise its science curriculum guidelines to include "both the
strengths and weaknesses of the Theory of Evolution without religious,
naturalistic, or philosophic bias or assumption."
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Read it at http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/6581373.htm
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Dale" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Panel backs off evolution debate |
21 Aug 2003 11:35:31 AM |
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"Chris Krolczyk" <chriskrolczyk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c743abb.0308210728.5f481bee@posting.google.com...
jspaceman@linuxquestions.net (Jason Spaceman) wrote in message
news:<b9401f8a.0308210051.db2b66d@posting.google.com>...
From the article:
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MONROE - The Union County school board on Tuesday flirted with, then
backed away from, a more-than-century-long debate questioning
evolution's place in science education.
Under discussion in the board's meeting was a proposal to ask the
state to revise its science curriculum guidelines to include "both the
strengths and weaknesses of the Theory of Evolution without religious,
naturalistic, or philosophic bias or assumption."
Uh huh. And just what constitutes said biases in the minds of this
particular school board? And is the Discovery Institute micromanaging
their lobbying efforts so much these days that they're going after
county school boards as well as their statewide equivalents?
According to the Magnolia Potpourri, there's going to be a forum about that
on September 18 at Montgomery County College here in Texas,
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=9995290&BRD=1493&PAG=461&dept_id=187627&rfi=6,
http://tinyurl.com/kqn5. Could be that the DI is trying to spur an
apparently spontaneous grassroots uprising across the nation.
Interestingly, according to the article "The idea behind intelligent design
is a theological doctrine which purposes [sic] that all matter and living
forms were distinctively fashioned by God and did not merely pop up, or
evolve, into being. Cadwallader believes public school textbooks promote
evolution as a scientific fact rather than the hypothesis it actually is."
Not what the DI usually says about it, but the author of the article's
[accurate] interpretation.
Also, among 14 letters in response to the article, not a single one is in
support of intelligent design, or any kind of creationism for that matter.
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| User: "Sarah Berel-Harrop" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Panel backs off evolution debate |
21 Aug 2003 11:46:53 AM |
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"Dale" <dmgreer@nspm.airmail.net> wrote in message
news:bi2sa3$qmt@library1.airnews.net...
"Chris Krolczyk" <chriskrolczyk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c743abb.0308210728.5f481bee@posting.google.com...
jspaceman@linuxquestions.net (Jason Spaceman) wrote in message
According to the Magnolia Potpourri, there's going to be a forum about
that
on September 18 at Montgomery County College here in Texas,
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=9995290&BRD=1493&PAG=461&dept_id=1
87627&rfi=6,
http://tinyurl.com/kqn5. Could be that the DI is trying to spur an
apparently spontaneous grassroots uprising across the nation.
Montgomery County also where there was the
controversy about the removal of _It's So Amazing_
from the library shelves.
I think what happens is the areas where there are
conservative activists get hooked in. IE, in some
sense it really *is* grassroots.
Interestingly, according to the article "The idea behind intelligent
design
is a theological doctrine which purposes [sic] that all matter and living
forms were distinctively fashioned by God and did not merely pop up, or
evolve, into being. Cadwallader believes public school textbooks promote
evolution as a scientific fact rather than the hypothesis it actually is."
Not what the DI usually says about it, but the author of the article's
[accurate] interpretation.
Also, among 14 letters in response to the article, not a single one is in
support of intelligent design, or any kind of creationism for that matter.
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| User: "Dunk" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Panel backs off evolution debate |
21 Aug 2003 11:16:14 AM |
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:29:14 +0000 (UTC),
(Chris Krolczyk) wrote:
jspaceman@linuxquestions.net (Jason Spaceman) wrote in message news:<b9401f8a.0308210051.db2b66d@posting.google.com>...
From the article:
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MONROE - The Union County school board on Tuesday flirted with, then
backed away from, a more-than-century-long debate questioning
evolution's place in science education.
Under discussion in the board's meeting was a proposal to ask the
state to revise its science curriculum guidelines to include "both the
strengths and weaknesses of the Theory of Evolution without religious,
naturalistic, or philosophic bias or assumption."
Uh huh. And just what constitutes said biases in the minds of this
particular school board? And is the Discovery Institute micromanaging
their lobbying efforts so much these days that they're going after
county school boards as well as their statewide equivalents?
-Chris Krolczyk
Guerilla creationism. Nothing new.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Panel backs off evolution debate |
21 Aug 2003 11:05:52 PM |
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:46:53 +0000 (UTC), "Sarah Berel-Harrop"
<sec@hal-pc.org> posted in alt.atheism:
I think what happens is the areas where there are
conservative activists get hooked in. IE, in some
sense it really *is* grassroots.
Except that ther grass is a lot more intelligent.
--
"Christians, it is needless to say, utterly detest each other. They slander each
other constantly with the vilest forms of abuse and cannot come to any sort of
agreement in their teachings. Each sect brands its own, fills the head of its own
with deceitful nonsense, and makes perfect little pigs of those it wins over to its
side."
- Celsus (2nd century C.E.)
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rukbat at optonline dot net
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