Posted on 10/03/2005 6:22:51 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
After a weekend break from a court case involving intelligent design, the Dover school board officials will face business as usual. The board today will hold its first school board meeting since the trial began.
On Sunday, Dover school board member David Napierski said he sympathized with the time fellow members Shelia Harkins and Alan Bonsell have spent on the court case.
“I really haven’t seen it erode them from their duties,” he said. “It definitely has taken a lot of their time . . . I think it is sapping some of the people, too.”
The trial began Sept. 26 in U.S. Middle District Court in Harrisburg. It resumes Wednesday.
Napierski hopes to attend at least one day per week of the trial.
“We’re seeing one side of the whole picture right now,” he said. “I think it’s going to go all the way up to the Supreme Court.”
He said dealing with the court case while running the school district is a “double-edged sword.
“I just hope and pray that our focus will stay on business,” he said.
School district residents might have a difficult time resuming day-to-day life as it was before the trial began.
Lonnie Langioni left his position as a school board member in Dover in 2003. He said the issue has divided the community and he wants folks to again be friends.
“We’re just going to have to let it run its course,” he said about the trial. “I’m just waiting for the day that this is all over and that the people of Dover can go back to talking to each other again.”
He said he follows the case and reads newspapers and articles online.
“It’s crossed all kinds of lines,” he said of the trial. “Dover is a great community. We all need to respect each others’ viewpoints.”
Former Dover school board member Barrie Callahan, a plaintiff in the court case, is ready to spend more time in court this week.
“The case needs to proceed,” she said Saturday. “I know the issue. To see it through the process is truly fascinating.
“You’re seeing the best of the best,” she said about attorneys. “It is an honor to be in their presence.”
She said she’s been following news of the trial posted online.
“It’s not about little tiny Dover,” she said. “This case really, really is important.”
UPDATE
Trial schedule: The trial resumes Wednesday and Thursday in U.S. Middle District Court in Harrisburg and is scheduled to continue Oct. 12, 14, 17 through 21, 24, 27 and Nov. 2 through 4.
At stake: It’s the most significant court challenge to evolution since 1987, and it’s the first time a court has been asked to rule whether intelligent design can be taught in public schools. Experts say the case’s outcome could influence how science is defined and taught in schools across the country. The lead defense lawyer said he wanted to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Coming this week: Among the scheduled witnesses: Dover school district science teacher Bertha Spahr and Jennifer Miller and plaintiffs Cynthia Sneath, Joel Leib and Deb Fenimore.
Barbara Forrest, a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University, also is scheduled. Forrest co-authored “Creationism’s Trojan Horse,” subtitled “The Wedge of Intelligent Design.”
Actually, I believe the mainstream consensus is that you were born from parents in an evolving population.
FYI: this thread has been moved to the Smokey Backroom.
Festival of the Dual Personality/Citizenship Troll
" And do the ones that know.. truly know? I say not."
I say yes.
For decades, many biologists have marked life's beginning as the spontaneous emergence of the first self-replicating molecule on Earth. But identifying that molecule seemed impossible because in modern cells the blueprint for life rests equally on three types of molecules. The nucleic acid DNA stores genetic information, which is then copied into RNA and used to make proteins. Proteins, in turn, act as catalysts necessary for gene replication.
In the 1980s, when researchers discovered that RNA could also catalyse reactions, RNA was hailed as the likely founding molecule. But last summer, Ghadiri showed that it was too early to rule out proteins. They constructed a protein that could act as a blueprint for its own replication. The replicator was a 32-amino-acid peptide that formed the scaffold on which two smaller pieces docked and fused to create an identical 32-amino-acid peptide. The "twins" fell apart, and the cycle repeated (New Scientist, Science, 10 August 1996, p 16).
Self-replicating peptide from the Ghadiri group Severin K, Lee DH, Kennan AJ, and Ghadiri MR, A synthetic peptide ligase. Nature, 389: 706-9, 1997
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Doudna JA, Couture S, and Szostak JW, A multisubunit ribozyme that is a catalyst of and template for complementary strand RNA synthesis. Science, 251: 1605-8, 1991
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Katchalsky's group (Israel) first succeeded in forming polypeptides with Montmorillonite (a highly common clay) up to an efficiency of nearly one hundred percent.
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Chemical replicating patterns
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But Purdue University scientist Jean Chmielewski has developed a system made up of four peptides -- the building blocks for proteins -- that can replicate itself and is capable of adapting to changes in the environment. The findings, published in the Dec. 3 issue of the scientific journal Nature, expand the scientific view of how life began.
"The ironic thing is, that unless we were created and our creator reveals itself, we will never really know who is right."
Unless we examine the physical world around us. Then we don't have to wait for the creator to finally chime in. :)
A bit later you did ask yourself to put you on your ping list
To: RunningWolfI forgot,
Will you put me on your ping list?
Wolf
175 posted on 10/03/2005 12:35:10 PM PDT by RunningWolf (tag line limbo)
NZ was trying to use quote-mining to show that Darwin, Gould and Patterson, as well as others, were contemplating the rejection of the ToE. I showed that he based his interpretation of the quotes on incorrect assumptions.
You will also note that no creationists responded to my 'less than coherent' post.
I don't respond to either of the running wolves. Alone they're weird. When they get in a pack, freaky.
I don't respond to either of the running wolves. Alone they're weird. When they get in a pack, freaky.
Heh heh. Duplicate posts. How appropriate.
ROFLOL. Great catch.
Dude! It's Hedy Lamar!
"I catch musky and Northern pike ..."
Is that the Canadian spelling for muskie? If you fish for them (and they are a great catch!), you should spell it correctly.
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