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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Yes, it is amazing what science has accomplished. Can you name any accomplishments based on the Bible?
Run away. LOL!
“I wonder what the speed of sound disproves?”I don't know about the speed, but sound often disproves intelligence...
Obviously you have never heard of projection. Go wallow in your grief. Don't try to project your screw ups onto me.
And here ladies and gentlemen, we have evidence of failed godless liberal NEA public schools, solid irrefutable evidence.
All you have to do is send a little bit of information faster than the speed of light and you would be correct. If you can't pull that little demonstration off then you would be wrong. Can you transmit information faster than the speed of light?
I’m not wallowing. And we are all children of sin. So call it whatever you want. Too bad you’re blinded.
You ducked my question, BTW — what’s the speed of spiritual light?
My personal unstated beliefs aren't relevant to your assertion.
Again, how does light speed prove that God is only manifest in the material but that he doesn't concern himself with the actions of human beings?
Something tells me that LeGrande has a problem telling us what the speed of spiritual light is.
Don't trip over any of your self-contradictions on the way.
Like gravity?
Is Creationism science?
You be sure to ping me. LOL!
*rimshot*
Your assertions about evolution are unscientific.
Wrong. Go ahead and guess again. Or maybe you might learn something if you read the articles you cut and pasted from.
Now you want me to measure a figment of you imagination? LOL
They are when you try and claim Einstein believes in the same god you do.
I guess I should ask if you believe in an omnipotent god? If you don't then my line of reasoning wouldn't apply to your imagined god.
I am not a child of sin. I am responsible for my own life and happiness : ) I am not responsible for what someone did thousands of years ago. If you want to believe that, go ahead, you can do it without me.
If the Creator exists, He created me as I am. Who are you to question his grand design?
Sure, securing a favorable place for one's eternal soul.
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