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The New Monkey Trial
www.salon.com
highlights:
"" "Please don't feel bad that you haven't read the whole thing," Martin told a creationist "witness" at the hearings on the science curriculum, "because I haven't read it myself." Audience members groaned. To clarify, Martin later explained: "I'm not a word-for-word reader in this kind of technical information." So it went at Kansas' evolution hearings, which concluded Thursday, a Board of Education event where a concrete understanding of all that pesky technical information involved in science was apparently considered unnecessary to reach a verdict on evolution ""
********** not needing the information to make a decision? yeah, this is the pursuit of truth through science all right rather it is a mockery of both truth and science **********************
"" Krebs, like others around the country who have stood up for evolution in recent years, regards the current creationist fixation on intelligent design as a wedge, intended to open the door to the introduction of a wide range of creationist ideas in science classrooms ""
"" When the primary elections were tallied last summer, we knew we would have an ultra-conservative religious-right majority of 6 to 4," says Staver. Democracy, he adds wryly, has "now gotten us back into it." Abrams, Martin, and their creationist colleagues promptly used the state's regularly scheduled curriculum review to reopen the door for creationism -- by handpicking pro-creationist allies to serve on the state's curriculum committee and draft their own report ""
************************** ultra right wing creationsists are running the show? not scientists ?? i thought the debate is whether this ID is science or not.******************************* **
"" A principal aim of the creationists is to scrub the definition of "science" from Kansas classrooms -- now described as "human activity of systematically seeking natural explanations" for phenomena -- and to replace it with a more general definition lacking the words "natural explanations." If that sounds like an innocuous change -- well, that's the aim. By removing the notion of "natural explanations" as part of science, the creationists aim to give religion a foothold in the classroom, in the name of scientific balance. ""'
*********************************** **hey! thats what i've been saying all along, i guess if you change the definition of science then, yea, ID is science. so are leprechauns *********************************** ****
""" was inspired by the book of Genesis, had "no scientific merit," and had as its sole goal "the advancement of religion." """
************************ today in social studies ! Jesus is our lord! Ahmad! Rashid! Kareem! why aren't you repeating after me? do you want to fail social studies? who is your lord Razi jr?" *********************************** ******
"" Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish newspaper columnist and Muslim who tried to make the case that teaching evolution in the United States generates "anti-Westernism" in other parts of the world. In so doing, they are trying to present a public face for creationism that cannot be defined as representing a particular religious sect.
"""
*********************************** *********** here's another great reason to teach ID! not because it is science! but because evolution makes the Muslims hate the US!!!! this is a mockery of natural science, political science, muslims, and US's pisspoor foereign policy *********************************** **********
""
Similarly, in many states, creationist efforts to change curricula are based on the template of the "Santorum language," a nonbinding statement that GOP Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania attached to the 2001 No Child Left Behind education bill, which stipulates that where "evolution is taught, the curriculum should help students to understand why this subject generates so much continuing controversy." That claim, evolution's backers say, is a back-door way of introducing religion-based theories of creation to science classes.
""
*******************************sena tor rick santorum (side note do you know what the other meaning of santorum is? google it! it's fun ) truely a scientists of nearly deific proportions!!!! i have no doubt he understands evolutionary theory well enough to criticize it from a scientific perspective! no doubt at all *********************************** *********
highlights:
"" "Please don't feel bad that you haven't read the whole thing," Martin told a creationist "witness" at the hearings on the science curriculum, "because I haven't read it myself." Audience members groaned. To clarify, Martin later explained: "I'm not a word-for-word reader in this kind of technical information." So it went at Kansas' evolution hearings, which concluded Thursday, a Board of Education event where a concrete understanding of all that pesky technical information involved in science was apparently considered unnecessary to reach a verdict on evolution ""
********** not needing the information to make a decision? yeah, this is the pursuit of truth through science all right rather it is a mockery of both truth and science **********************
"" Krebs, like others around the country who have stood up for evolution in recent years, regards the current creationist fixation on intelligent design as a wedge, intended to open the door to the introduction of a wide range of creationist ideas in science classrooms ""
"" When the primary elections were tallied last summer, we knew we would have an ultra-conservative religious-right majority of 6 to 4," says Staver. Democracy, he adds wryly, has "now gotten us back into it." Abrams, Martin, and their creationist colleagues promptly used the state's regularly scheduled curriculum review to reopen the door for creationism -- by handpicking pro-creationist allies to serve on the state's curriculum committee and draft their own report ""
************************** ultra right wing creationsists are running the show? not scientists ?? i thought the debate is whether this ID is science or not.******************************* **
"" A principal aim of the creationists is to scrub the definition of "science" from Kansas classrooms -- now described as "human activity of systematically seeking natural explanations" for phenomena -- and to replace it with a more general definition lacking the words "natural explanations." If that sounds like an innocuous change -- well, that's the aim. By removing the notion of "natural explanations" as part of science, the creationists aim to give religion a foothold in the classroom, in the name of scientific balance. ""'
*********************************** **hey! thats what i've been saying all along, i guess if you change the definition of science then, yea, ID is science. so are leprechauns *********************************** ****
""" was inspired by the book of Genesis, had "no scientific merit," and had as its sole goal "the advancement of religion." """
************************ today in social studies ! Jesus is our lord! Ahmad! Rashid! Kareem! why aren't you repeating after me? do you want to fail social studies? who is your lord Razi jr?" *********************************** ******
"" Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish newspaper columnist and Muslim who tried to make the case that teaching evolution in the United States generates "anti-Westernism" in other parts of the world. In so doing, they are trying to present a public face for creationism that cannot be defined as representing a particular religious sect.
"""
*********************************** *********** here's another great reason to teach ID! not because it is science! but because evolution makes the Muslims hate the US!!!! this is a mockery of natural science, political science, muslims, and US's pisspoor foereign policy *********************************** **********
""
Similarly, in many states, creationist efforts to change curricula are based on the template of the "Santorum language," a nonbinding statement that GOP Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania attached to the 2001 No Child Left Behind education bill, which stipulates that where "evolution is taught, the curriculum should help students to understand why this subject generates so much continuing controversy." That claim, evolution's backers say, is a back-door way of introducing religion-based theories of creation to science classes.
""
*******************************sena tor rick santorum (side note do you know what the other meaning of santorum is? google it! it's fun ) truely a scientists of nearly deific proportions!!!! i have no doubt he understands evolutionary theory well enough to criticize it from a scientific perspective! no doubt at all *********************************** *********