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"johac" |
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16 Jun 2005 01:51:32 AM |
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More Evolution Monkey Business in Kansas |
Unevolved school board member calls evolution 'impossible'.
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Posted on Wed, Jun. 15, 2005
Evolution theory called impossible
TOPEKA As the Kansas Board of Education readies for a final debate on
the teaching of evolution, one member is leveling the harshest criticism
yet, calling the theory an impossibility.
In a recent newsletter to constituents in western Kansas, board member
Connie Morris calls evolution a fairy tale that has anti-God contempt
and arrogance.
The four-page letter then criticizes mainstream scientists, the media
and moderate members of the school board who opposed recent hearings on
evolution.
In short, Darwins theory of evolution is biologically, genetically,
mathematically, chemically, metaphysically and etc. wildly and utterly
impossible, Morris wrote constituents.
In the newsletter, Morris calls board member Sue Gamble of Shawnee
continually disruptive and rude. Gamble has said religious-based
criticism of evolution violates the separation of church and state.
At its meeting today in Topeka, the full 10-member board will take up
proposed changes to science guidelines, partly written by Morris, that
criticize evolution. Though individual districts may set their own
curriculum, the guidelines serve as the basis for state assessment tests
and are used as curriculum standards in many districts.
The changes include references to evolutions weaknesses in fully
explaining the origin of life and the existence of DNA, and they soften
language about evolutions place in the scientific canon.
A final vote on the issue is not expected until the boards July or
August meetings. But board chairman Steve Abrams expects a strong debate
on the topic today. Abrams leads a group of six board members who
support the proposal.
Morris said she would push to insert more criticism of evolution before
the final vote.
Harry McDonald, president of Kansas Citizens for Science and a retired
science teacher who lives in Olathe, said inserting criticism of
evolution into the school curriculum was a foregone conclusion once the
board voted to put evolution on trial.
Last month three members of the board held four days of hearings to
discuss perceived flaws in the theory of evolution at a cost of $17,000
to the state. The hearings came at the urging of proponents of
intelligent design, the idea that some features of the world can be
explained only as being the work of a creator. Mainstream scientists
boycotted the event.
Gamble, who opposed the hearings, said conservatives have the votes to
approve the proposal.
They have six votes, she said. Whenever they choose to use them, they
will.
Gamble said Morris comments in the newsletter were most inappropriate.
Board member Bill Wagnon of Topeka said he would bring up the newsletter
today at the boards meeting. He said Morris and others are trying to
play politics with education.
Its straight gutter-ball politics, he said Tuesday.
Morris would not comment on the newsletter except to say its something
she sends out from time to time to supporters. The state picks up most
of the tab for the newsletter. On Tuesday, Morris submitted to the
Department of Education a request for compensation in the amount of $166.
I think it (the newsletter) speaks for itself, she said.
In it, she accuses mainstream scientists and the media of creating a
hysteria surrounding the proposed changes to the science guidelines, and
covering up what she says is a theory in crisis. While she wrote that
she accepts the biblical creation account literally, her objections to
evolution are based on what she perceives as logical flaws in the theory.
The evolutionists are in panic mode, she wrote.
Several educators and scientists attended Tuesdays board meeting to
protest the changes.
Harry Gregory teaches biology at a Wichita Catholic school. Even though
his private school has a theological bent, he said, he teaches strict
evolution in his classroom.
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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11896436.htm
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John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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| User: "Niels van der Linden" |
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16 Jun 2005 09:36:39 AM |
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In short, Darwins theory of evolution is biologically, genetically,
mathematically, chemically, metaphysically and etc. wildly and utterly
impossible, Morris wrote constituents.
Yes, yes.
Slight reminder: this is from the people who think fitting 1.5 million
species on a boat is biologically, genetically, mathematically, chemically,
metaphysically (?) and etc. (?) wildly and utterly possible.
Niels
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: More Evolution Monkey Business in Kansas |
18 Jun 2005 02:15:56 AM |
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In article <d8s2li$ue0$1@netlx020.civ.utwente.nl>,
"Niels van der Linden" <n.f.l.vanderlinden@student.utwente.nl> wrote:
In short, Darwins theory of evolution is biologically, genetically,
mathematically, chemically, metaphysically and etc. wildly and utterly
impossible, Morris wrote constituents.
Yes, yes.
Slight reminder: this is from the people who think fitting 1.5 million
species on a boat is biologically, genetically, mathematically, chemically,
metaphysically (?) and etc. (?) wildly and utterly possible.
Niels
Yes and with only a handful of humans to feed them, clean up after them,
etc.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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| User: "Niels van der Linden" |
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| Title: Re: More Evolution Monkey Business in Kansas |
18 Jun 2005 06:56:28 AM |
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In short, Darwins theory of evolution is biologically, genetically,
mathematically, chemically, metaphysically and etc. wildly and utterly
impossible, Morris wrote constituents.
Yes, yes.
Slight reminder: this is from the people who think fitting 1.5 million
species on a boat is biologically, genetically, mathematically,
chemically,
metaphysically (?) and etc. (?) wildly and utterly possible.
Niels
Yes and with only a handful of humans to feed them, clean up after them,
etc.
I don't think the amount of humans is relevant to the feasibility.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: More Evolution Monkey Business in Kansas |
19 Jun 2005 01:58:13 AM |
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In article <d9120t$dfe$1@netlx020.civ.utwente.nl>,
"Niels van der Linden" <n.f.l.vanderlinden@student.utwente.nl> wrote:
In short, Darwins theory of evolution is biologically, genetically,
mathematically, chemically, metaphysically and etc. wildly and utterly
impossible, Morris wrote constituents.
Yes, yes.
Slight reminder: this is from the people who think fitting 1.5 million
species on a boat is biologically, genetically, mathematically,
chemically,
metaphysically (?) and etc. (?) wildly and utterly possible.
Niels
Yes and with only a handful of humans to feed them, clean up after them,
etc.
I don't think the amount of humans is relevant to the feasibility.
There are many reasons why the while tale is ridiculous. Not least of
which is that an all wooden boat of the Ark's supposed dimensions would
never float.
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John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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| User: "RobH" |
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| Title: Re: More Evolution Monkey Business in Kansas |
16 Jun 2005 07:48:14 AM |
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It's time for any caring, intelligent family with kids, or plans to have
kids, to pack up and move out of Kansas. I don't think that would be many
families.
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| User: "R. Pierce Butler" |
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| Title: Re: More Evolution Monkey Business in Kansas |
16 Jun 2005 08:28:41 AM |
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RobH <Rob@aol.com> wrote in news:Xns96774F6AE1953Rob@24.93.43.121:
It's time for any caring, intelligent family with kids, or plans to have
kids, to pack up and move out of Kansas. I don't think that would be many
families.
What is amazing is how history repeats itself. In the future people will
look back and realize the truth that evolution does happen regardless of
one's religious beliefs.
r
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: More Evolution Monkey Business in Kansas |
18 Jun 2005 02:14:35 AM |
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In article <Xns9677563E2C301mc2500183316chgoill@10.232.1.1>,
"R. Pierce Butler" <spamsucks@google.com> wrote:
RobH <Rob@aol.com> wrote in news:Xns96774F6AE1953Rob@24.93.43.121:
It's time for any caring, intelligent family with kids, or plans to have
kids, to pack up and move out of Kansas. I don't think that would be many
families.
What is amazing is how history repeats itself. In the future people will
look back and realize the truth that evolution does happen regardless of
one's religious beliefs.
r
Just as the Earth revolves around the Sun.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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