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"Jason Spaceman" |
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12 Apr 2005 09:17:45 PM |
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In the News: Parents argue over intelligent design |
From the article:
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By JOSEPH MALDONADO
For the Daily Record/Sunday News
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Sporting red and white buttons supporting the Dover Area School board at Monday
night's meeting, Gina Myers and Wendy Bowers read a statement from a petition
backing the board's October decision to include a statement about intelligent
design in the ninth-grade biology classes.
The statement said, in part, that the 280 signers were glad the board introduced
something that suggests "intelligent causes, rather than random chance
provides, a better explanation for the complex biological systems of life."
The pair said the board should be commended for exposing evolution's gaps and
problems.
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Read it at http://ydr.com/story/doverbiology/64979/
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Ike" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Parents argue over intelligent design |
13 Apr 2005 02:54:14 PM |
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"Jason Spaceman" <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in message
news:xqqdnZ6qj5xk1sHfRVn-ig@rogers.com...
From the article:
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By JOSEPH MALDONADO
For the Daily Record/Sunday News
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Sporting red and white buttons supporting the Dover Area School board at
Monday
night's meeting, Gina Myers and Wendy Bowers read a statement from a
petition
backing the board's October decision to include a statement about
intelligent
design in the ninth-grade biology classes.
The statement said, in part, that the 280 signers were glad the board
introduced
something that suggests "intelligent causes, rather than random chance
provides, a better explanation for the complex biological systems of
life."
The pair said the board should be commended for exposing evolution's gaps
and
problems.
Wow! How intelligent can you get??
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| User: "Andrew Arensburger" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Parents argue over intelligent design |
13 Apr 2005 05:55:15 PM |
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In talk.origins Jason Spaceman <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote:
From the article:
The statement said, in part, that the 280 signers were glad the board introduced
something that suggests "intelligent causes, rather than random chance
provides, a better explanation for the complex biological systems of life."
That's like saying that flat-earthism should be taught because
photos of the Earth taken from the shuttle and from the moon are
better explained by the Earth being pizza-shaped than banana-shaped.
Also, the comma should go before "provides", not after. So nyaaah!
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| User: "proto_sapien" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Parents argue over intelligent design |
14 Apr 2005 01:51:38 AM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
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By JOSEPH MALDONADO
For the Daily Record/Sunday News
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Sporting red and white buttons supporting the Dover Area School board at Monday
night's meeting, Gina Myers and Wendy Bowers read a statement from a petition
backing the board's October decision to include a statement about intelligent
design in the ninth-grade biology classes.
The statement said, in part, that the 280 signers were glad the board introduced
something that suggests "intelligent causes, rather than random chance
provides, a better explanation for the complex biological systems of life."
I don't suppose explaining to these people that in the context of
evolutionary change, the term random means 'without a preferred or
pre-determined direction' not 'all possibilities are equally probable'
would do any good.
Nah, didn't think so.
The pair said the board should be commended for exposing evolution's gaps and
problems.
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Read it at http://ydr.com/story/doverbiology/64979/
J. Spaceman
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