Kathy Martin, chief anti-evolutionist on the Kansas School Board
Thirty-eight Nobel Prize winners can't persuade her
Posted on 09/16/2005 4:54:35 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
Thirty-eight Nobel Prize laureates asked state educators to reject proposed science standards that treat evolution as a seriously questionable theory, calling it instead the "indispensable" foundation of biology.
The group, led by the writer Elie Wiesel, said it wanted to defend science and combat "efforts by the proponents of so-called intelligent design to politicize scientific inquiry."
The proposed standards, which could come up for final Board of Education approval later this year, are designed to expose students to more criticism of evolution but state in an introduction that they do not endorse intelligent design.
That increasingly popular theory argues that some features of the natural world are best explained as having an intelligent cause because they are well-ordered and complex. Its followers attack Darwin's evolutionary theory, which says natural chemical processes could have created the basic building blocks of life on Earth, that all life had a common ancestor and that man and apes shared a common ancestor.
Education Board Chairman Steve Abrams, a conservative Republican who has supported the proposed standards, said he was unmoved by the scientists' plea, which became public Thursday.
"I don't think anything should be taught as dogma," Abrams told the Lawrence Journal-World.
The standards, used in developing tests for students, came up for update under state law.
Besides Wiesel, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the letter writers include chemists, physicists and medical experts from Wiesel's New York-based Foundation for Humanity.
In their letter, they lauded evolution, saying "its indispensable role has been further strengthened by the capacity to study DNA."
The group said intelligent design can't be tested scientifically "because its central conclusion is based on belief in the intervention of a supernatural agent."
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Sounds pretty dogmatic to me.....
Oh and they say this is not about a religion. HA!!!
What do a bunch of Nobelists know about science education compared to heartthrob mega-babe Kathy Martin?
If this GROSS LIBERAL ANTI-REALITY effort does not get stopped, our so-called institutions of learning will be nothing more re-conditioning camps for Communists for the sole purpose of socialist indoctrination to their re-defined world.
Total insanity.
When light first came to the earth, O-ma-ma-ma the earth mother of the Cree people gave birth to the spirits of the world. The first born was Binay-sih, the thunderbird who protects the animals from the sea serpent, Genay-big. Thunderbirds shout out their unhappiness or anger with black clouds, rain and fire flashes in the sky. The second born was Ina-kaki, the lowly frog who heightens the sorcerer's powers and helps to control the insects in the world. The third born was the trickster Wee-sa-hay-jac, who can change himself into many forms or shapes to protect himself. The fourth child was Ma-heegun, Wee-sa-hay-jac's little wolf brother. They travel together with Wee-sa-hay-jac on his back. The fifth born was Amik the beaver, who is greatly respected because he is an unfortunate human from a different world. Fish, rocks, grasses, and trees all came from the womb of the great earth mother O-ma-ma-ma. The earth was inhabited a long time by only animals and spirits because Wee-sa-hay-jac had not yet made any people.
It is wrong to teach children they are common descent of animals. You tell a child they are an animal and they are going to act like animals.
I do not care what the evolutionists believes.
As much as I admire Elie Wiesel, why does he qualify as an expert on biology?
They only got 38? Must have been a few laureates on vacation.
Is O-pa-pa-pa the earth FATHER of the Cree people?
This is another one of those funny data points for the idea some linguists have that language only originated once.
Gee, maybe he just understands it.
Since she is your competitor how about posting your photo side by side of hers.
He doesn't; but he's managed to put together what seems to be an impressive group of science winners. And I might point out that he's no less qualified, and possibly a tad more intelligent, than the lovely Kathy Martin.
Evolution is a lie. Evolution is a convenience for those who find the need to plot another way, could call it another god.
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How to argue against a scientific theory.
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They're going fast!
Your emotional knee-jerks of religious horror are not science and have no place in science class.
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