Posted on 01/20/2005 12:54:58 PM PST by Jay777
ANN ARBOR, MI — The small town of Dover, Pennsylvania today became the first school district in the nation to officially inform students of the theory of Intelligent Design, as an alternative to Darwin’s theory of Evolution. In what has been called a “measured step”, ninth grade biology students in the Dover Area School District were read a four-paragraph statement Tuesday morning explaining that Darwin’s theory is not a fact and continues to be tested. The statement continued, “Intelligent Design is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin’s view.” Since the late 1950s advances in biochemistry and microbiology, information that Darwin did not have in the 1850s, have revealed that the machine like complexity of living cells - the fundamental unit of life- possessing the ability to store, edit, and transmit and use information to regulate biological systems, suggests the theory of intelligent design as the best explanation for the origin of life and living cells.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm representing the school district against an ACLU lawsuit, commented, “Biology students in this small town received perhaps the most balanced science education regarding Darwin’s theory of evolution than any other public school student in the nation. This is not a case of science versus religion, but science versus science, with credible scientists now determining that based upon scientific data, the theory of evolution cannot explain the complexity of living cells.”
“It is ironic that the ACLU after having worked so hard to prevent the suppression of Darwin’s theory in the Scopes trial, is now doing everything it can to suppress any effort to challenge it,” continued Thompson.
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Sometimes, maybe, but incorrectly.
I don't have much beef in this overall dispute, but I thought I'd mention that my high school evolutionary curriculum was about three weeks to a month long and I sure do hope things haven't slid downhill that much since then!
You do know how to use the "Enter" key to make paragraph breaks?
I am STILL waiting for you to cite some examples of this "fiction" you keep ranting about ...
Formatting is our friend.
I'm afraid you won't believe me but here goes:
1.(about 15 years ago, elementary) men have one less rib than women
2 (recent, high school) there are two kingdoms of living things
3. let's vote!!!(regarding the validity of a conclusion, rather than finding an experiment or looking for additional data)
Please cite some examples of your "BS".
Mine might have gone all the way to a week or two when you include the peas and some other incidental, but little of that was evolution itself but merely stuff related to evolution if you wanted to look deeply, and it definitely wasn't the 12 week course (60 lessons, I counted) in the ENSI outline WildTurkey is linking to. The ENSI outline would be an excellent course on evolution, but there's no room for that in a 34ish week school year, there's frogs to disect and plants to play with and all kinds of other stuff that's expected to be in a bio class.
Yikes! Sounds like the problem is crappy teachers, not the curriculum itself..
I already did: electron orbits.
Bingo! That's precisely why I want to reduce the curriculum.
For the third time: I already did. The electron orbits taught in high school chemistry are 100% LIES of the basest form which must be unlearned immediately in college if the student is to have any hope of learning anything. Sorry you don't llike that answer, but your happiness isn't my problem. That is BS that is taught in high school science that does a diservice to the student and they'd be better off learning nothing than that pack of lies.
You do know how to use the "Enter" key to make paragraph breaks?
I did, but for some reason it wouldn't do it when I previewed it. I tried several times. It even converted some words to numbers. Go to the website for a better read.
There is no way I can dispute your claims since they are just anecdotal. Please provide some curriculum module or school documents showing that these things are part of the curriculum.
No.
Yes there are crappy teachers but the basic problem is more analagous to sending a kid to a fine music teacher in order to learn sculpture. They can do their best but they can't do it right.
What about electron orbits?
I would love to see what is actually in a current biology textbook that is actually false. What part of Darwin's original writing is false? I mean a part that is actually taught in high school?
The point is not what is in the modules; it is what is in the classroom.
What we teach about them to high school students is a damned lie that bears no resemblance to how they really work. Simplified to the point of fiction, total misinformation that must be unlearned if the student goes on to learn more about chemistry if they're every to succeed.
How are they lies? And please, no anecdotal citings from 15 years ago where some teacher said electrons are tied to the nucleus with string.
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