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.”
You latched onto the words of the post. You don't know how ironic your post was...
Sorry. I don't get it.
Dawkins wrote that article.
Rush always says..."Words mean things".
Sociobiology certainly isn't politically correct. Like many other tributaries of science, it has both the left and the right united as enemies. The specific claims of sociobiologists will stand or fall on their own merits. Wishful thinking will not refute them.
Rush has a simplistic view of the world. It's the context of the words that "mean things." For example, the word "heart" can mean different things in different contexts.
Four peptides are also out of the question.
DNA and RNA are also just pattterns.
Did you miss the peptides and the proteins? Just kind of raced right by them looking for something you could refute did you?
Darwinism, i.e. TOE as modified by genetics, is Neo-Darwinism (I object to using his name, but it often is anyway). This "new synthesis" deals with the effect of genes and genetics on the physical properties of the organism.
Sociobiology as defined by E.O. Wilson extends genetics to the behavior of the organism, and by similarity, the effect of evolution on behavior. Some characteristics that are not physical clearly have a genetic piece to them (such as intelligence), but behavior in humans, especially, is so complicated that a solid link between Sociobiology and Evolution is difficult to establish. Your question is silly. Studying Evolution is for establishing relationships between organisms and the "origin of species". It has a strong genetic piece. Genetics and Behavior is another separate field. It's the same as studying Abiogenesis and Evolution. Clearly successful abiogenesis will lead to some overlap with evolution, but until abiogenesis is much better understood, they operate separately. So, until Sociobiology is better established it must operate spearately from evolution because the overlap bewteen them at the present is not clear. (rambles a bit, but I'm comfortable with it).
Must have exceeded the bandwidth of the account.
Nope, because I've seen that experiment years ago(jennyp posted it) and it is a farce as far as a potential life precursor.
Name the protein. That is all I ask. Then we can discuss what the experiment involving the named chemical "proves" or demonstrates. That is called discussion. But I find that you don't want to do that. All you seem to want to do is cite some thing and assert a definite answer to what the citation means.
Anything important to say? Or are you just spouting off?
Really? You mean they are self-replicating patterns? Who'd a guessed.
I don't admit that. I think there are lots of transitional fossils in the record. Didn't I post one to you on a previous thread, with a nice color picture?
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