Posted on 10/17/2008 7:59:18 AM PDT by Soliton
Three antievolutionists have been appointed to a six-member committee to review the draft set of Texas state science standards, and defenders of the integrity of science education in the Lone Star state are livid. "The committee was chosen by 12 of the 15 members of the board of education, with each panel member receiving the support of two board members," as the Dallas Morning News (October 16, 2008) explains. Six members of the board "aligned with social conservative groups" chose Stephen C. Meyer, the director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, Ralph Seelke, a biology professor at the University of Wiconsin, Superior, and Charles Garner, a chemistry professor at Baylor University.
Meyer, Seelke, and Garner are all signatories of the Discovery Institute-sponsored "Dissent from Darwinism" statement. Meyer and Seelke are also coauthors of Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism (Hill House, 2008), which, like Of Pandas and People, is a supplementary textbook that is intended to instill scientifically unwarranted doubts about evolution. A recent review by biologist John Timmer summarized, "But the book doesn't only promote stupidity, it demands it. In every way except its use of the actual term, this is a creationist book." Garner reportedly told the Houston Press (December 14, 2000) that he "criticizes evolutionary theory in class."
Meyer and Seelke also testified in the 2005 "kangaroo court" hearings held by three antievolutionist members of the Kansas state board of education, in which a parade of antievolutionist witnesses expressed their support for the so-called minority report version of the state science standards (written with the aid of a local "intelligent design" organization), complained of repression by a dogmatic evolutionary establishment, and claimed to have detected atheism lurking "between the lines" of the standards..
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I don't quite understand the question, but if it's multiple choice, which on will be "projection", and which one will get misquoted and followed by "WHO KNEW?"? Or will it be both of one or the other?
Evos on this board aren't scientists either. At least the ones honest enough to answer when asked.
I have a BA in Meteorology. Beats a high school history teacher as well.
Kind of like all the evos on this board.
I guess that means that the evos would fit right in with the the rest of the compost staff.
That they’re defending Obama and the Global Warming religion is revealing.
Despite our disagreements I think you would make a better President than our current two choices.
This has already posted. And the fact that is has been replicated has already been pointed out to you by another poster.
Your repeated and continued failure to address the data is noted.
Lenski turned to his freezer, where he had saved samples of each population every 500 generations. These allowed him to replay history from any starting point he chose, by reviving the bacteria and letting evolution “replay” again.
The replays showed that even when he looked at trillions of cells, only the original population re-evolved Cit+ – and only when he started the replay from generation 20,000 or greater. Something, he concluded, must have happened around generation 20,000 that laid the groundwork for Cit+ to later evolve.
Eventually liberals trip themselves up.
Like the majority of scientists I am convinced by the evidence of evolution, and a person of deep faith in God.
Most Christian denominations also know that there is no conflict between confidence in the scientific method and faith in God.
#402, You asked a question, I gave you the answer you've been demanding.
Oh. Come. On. You've been on these threads long enough to have read a dozen answers circular arguments that never answer a thing.
There, fixed.
I'm still waiting to see the slightest criticism by a non-creationist scientist of the cult of evolution.
You don’t understand about withholding tax. The Medicare and Social Security are matched by the employer or paid in full by self-employed people - at double the rate that comes out of the wages of those employed by others.
I gave you a link and you evidently didn’t bother to learn. No wonder you claim “churches” advance “their political agenda.”
Are you and metmom the same person, posting under 2 different screen names?
Like the majority of scientists I am convinced by the evidence of evolution, and a person of deep faith in God.
So you think evolution is a tool God uses?
It wasn't JOE that spouted the Marxist ideology about Wealth Redistributation!
QUICK!
Look over THERE!
Yup!
It's them damned CREVOS on school boards that have brought such low standards all around.
Kristallnacht #2 can't be far away!
Then send me someone who KNOWS one way or the other.
Yet... ;^)
In this country if an elected person dies, it is real possible their SPOUSE will be voted in next time!
Talk about "Qualification by Osmosis"!
Just like Hillary has all that experience!
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