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Scientists unite for science curriculum
Houston Chronicle ^ | Sept. 30, 2008 | KELLEY SHANNON

Posted on 09/30/2008 7:21:06 PM PDT by Soliton

AUSTIN — Scientists from Texas universities on Tuesday denounced what they called supernatural and religious teaching in public school science classrooms and voiced opposition to attempts to water down evolution instruction.

The newly formed 21st Century Science Coalition said so far it has 800 members who have signed up online.

"Texas public schools should be preparing our kids to succeed in the 21st century, not promoting political and ideological agendas that are hostile to a sound science education," said David Hillis, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin.

The State Board of Education is considering new science curriculum standards. It is expected to vote next spring. Because Texas is such a large purchaser of textbooks, its ongoing science debate affects textbooks nationwide.

An academic work group proposed that Texas standards for biology courses eliminate the long-held language of teaching students the "strengths and weaknesses" of theories.

The science coalition supports that language change because it says talking of "weaknesses" of evolution allows for religion-based concepts like creationism and intelligent design to enter the instruction. The Texas Freedom Network, an Austin-based group that says it monitors the influence of the religious right, also praises the proposed language change.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: agnostics; atheism; atheist; atheists; churchofdarwin; coyotespeaks; creationism; darwin; evangelicalatheists; evolution; id; materialism
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Science fights back
1 posted on 09/30/2008 7:21:06 PM PDT by Soliton
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To: Soliton

Fights back against what? I guess they will have to throw out Newton (who wrote more theology than science), Kepler, and a host of others who were all theists!


2 posted on 09/30/2008 7:23:25 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: LiteKeeper
Fights back against what?

Superstition

3 posted on 09/30/2008 7:25:51 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Soliton
"Texas public schools should be preparing our kids to succeed in the 21st century, not promoting political and ideological agendas that are hostile to a sound science education,"

So this means that they're banning Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" from being shown in classrooms? /s

4 posted on 09/30/2008 7:29:23 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie
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To: LiteKeeper

Yeah, it always amuses me that the evolutionists are the ones who get the most defensive. They conveniently ignore the scientific method when it doesn’t satisfy their agenda.


5 posted on 09/30/2008 7:29:28 PM PDT by DocCincy
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To: Soliton

Supernatural and religious teaching? You mean stuff that is opinion based rather than fully proven? Like quantum physics? Big Bang? Dinosaurs as reptiles? Piltdown man? LOL!


6 posted on 09/30/2008 7:31:05 PM PDT by Seruzawa (American Government: Providing Middle Class Incomes to Unemployables for Over 200 Years!)
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To: Soliton; betty boop; metmom; MrB; GodGunsGuts; valkyry1; Arthur Wildfire! March; Fichori; Elsie

Contrast this group to this group:

http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org

I’d even be willing to bet there are SCIENTISTS from Texas found here!


7 posted on 09/30/2008 7:31:10 PM PDT by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: LibFreeOrDie
So this means that they're banning Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" from being shown in classrooms? /s

Unfortunately not, oh see your /sarc> tag now 

 

8 posted on 09/30/2008 7:34:15 PM PDT by valkyry1 (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

If there’s ANY ideological agenda parents should be aware of it’s the secular humanist godless liberal NEA FAILED school agenda.

The atheists got a shot for decades all while excluding others.

It’s WAY past time citizens realize science isn’t interested in sterilizing God from public science class, education in general, etc.


9 posted on 09/30/2008 7:34:23 PM PDT by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: tpanther

bump for dissent from darwin http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org


10 posted on 09/30/2008 7:35:43 PM PDT by valkyry1 (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: Seruzawa

The guy’s got a LOT invested in there being no God.

He needn’t worry, God will not force him into His presence in the eternal afterlife.

Choose separation now, choose separation forever.


11 posted on 09/30/2008 7:38:19 PM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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To: Soliton

They’re fighting themselves? Who knew?


12 posted on 09/30/2008 7:39:57 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: Soliton

I must have been asleep for the past x years. Seems I’ve always heard of the “theory” of evolution - I guess I missed when it was officially renamed the “fact” of evolution.


13 posted on 09/30/2008 7:40:22 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: LiteKeeper

And replace with what?


14 posted on 09/30/2008 7:41:06 PM PDT by moreofthesame
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To: Soliton

Was Newton superstitious? Was Kepler superstitious? How about Bacon? Or Boyle? Or Linneaus? How about Faraday? James Joule? Pasteur? Lord Kelvin? Lister? All theists. Superstitious? Hm?


15 posted on 09/30/2008 7:42:52 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: moreofthesame

Evolutionist “just-so” stories.


16 posted on 09/30/2008 7:44:04 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: Rembrandt
I must have been asleep for the past x years. Seems I’ve always heard of the “theory” of evolution - I guess I missed when it was officially renamed the “fact” of evolution.

It's a thoroughly tested theory supported by mountains of evidence.

17 posted on 09/30/2008 7:44:29 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: LiteKeeper
Was Newton superstitious? Was Kepler superstitious? How about Bacon? Or Boyle? Or Linneaus? How about Faraday? James Joule? Pasteur? Lord Kelvin? Lister?

Apparently yes

18 posted on 09/30/2008 7:46:49 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: LiteKeeper
Can you show where any of these Scientists insisted that a supernatural agency was the cause of a physical phenomenon?
19 posted on 09/30/2008 7:47:57 PM PDT by allmendream (Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! RAH RAH RAH! McCain/Palin2008)
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To: Soliton

Fighting back against the religion that birthed them— Christianity.

Good job rebellious child. Go get em.


20 posted on 09/30/2008 7:48:58 PM PDT by lonestar67 (Its time to withdraw from the War on Bush-- your side is hopelessly lost in a quagmire.)
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