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Religions > Atheism |
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"Jason Spaceman" |
| Date: |
03 Feb 2005 11:47:59 AM |
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Kansas: Two sides battle over the teaching of evolution |
From the article:
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BY DIANE CARROLL
Knight Ridder Newspapers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - (KRT) - William Harris was in on the first fight
over evolution.
But six years ago, when the nation was watching what Kansas was doing,
few in the state seemed ready to hear what the medical-school
professor from Prairie Village, Kan., had to say.
Harris bets it will be different this time.
The conservatives who attacked evolution because it conflicted with
the Genesis account of how the world was created have faded into the
background.
In their place are professionals such as Harris who support
intelligent design, a theory that states some aspects of the universe
and living things are best explained by intelligent causes, not
chance. Darwin's theory of evolution doesn't always add up, they say,
and students should hear more about its shortcomings.
"There are only two options," said Harris, who is leading this year's
fight. "Life was either designed or it wasn't."
That's not the point, evolution defenders reply. Science is about
searching for natural explanations of the world, they say, and has no
room for a theory based on faith.
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Read it at
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/10806075.htm
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Dan Clore" |
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| Title: Re: Kansas: Two sides battle over the teaching of evolution |
04 Feb 2005 09:44:35 AM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
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BY DIANE CARROLL
Knight Ridder Newspapers
In their place are professionals such as Harris who support
intelligent design, a theory that states some aspects of the universe
and living things are best explained by intelligent causes, not
chance.
There might be some things that only intelligent causes
could create, but the so-called theory of intelligent design
certainly isn't one of them.
--
Dan Clore
My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_:
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Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the
immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.
-- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
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