Posted on 01/19/2009 9:42:35 PM PST by Coyoteman
The new Earth and Space Science (ESS) course standards (and all other science course standards) will be up for approval before the State Board of Education (SBOE) during January 21-23. Some SBOE members--the seven who are Young Earth Creationists (YECs)--will attempt to make changes to the ESS standards in ways that will damage the scientific integrity and accuracy of the course. In particular, these SBOE members will try to negatively modify or delete the standards that require students to understand the following topics that deal with scientific topics they consider controversial: age of the Earth and universe, radiometric dating, evolution of fossil life, and the origin of life by abiotic chemical processes. These topics are the ones that YECs consider to be controversial; indeed, they are obsessed with them to the exclusion of everything else.
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Ah, *that's* what you meant about DNA evidence and forensics--Dover trial and so forth. I mistakenly thought you were referring to *criminal* forensics and DNA testing there.
I should've caught that, of course.
Many apologies for my abject lack of attention to this thread.
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"Test the limits of theories of change"??
Please explain, I don't know what that phrase means.
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You lack conviction in your own arguments.
Please explain, I don't know what that phrase means.
I am referring to Behe's Edge of evolution, which asserts that two simultaneous mutations required for a new function are statistically impossible (something never posited by evolution theorists).
Behe say the next best thing is also impossible -- two sequential mutations, the first of which confers no benefit -- are also impossible.
Testing this is time consuming -- it can take decades -- but at least two laboratory experiments have demonstrated two and even three sequential mutations resulting in a new function. An equivalent multi-mutation sequence has occurred in the AIDS virus in historic times.
These cases confirm what theorists have claimed for the past 50 years -- that neutral and even mildly detrimental mutations can accumulate in a population and can become part of a new function, being bridged, so to speak, by a single enabling mutation. what was once theory is becoming laboratory science.
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