Posted on 08/15/2005 9:18:06 AM PDT by hc87
Exactly eighty years after the Scopes "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tennessee, history is about to repeat itself. In a courtroom in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in late September, scientists and creationists will square off about whether and how high school students in Dover, Pennsylvania will learn about biological evolution. One would have assumed that these battles were over, but that is to underestimate the fury (and the ingenuity) of creationists scorned.
The Scopes trial of our day--Kitzmiller, et al v. Dover Area School District et al--began innocuously...
(Excerpt) Read more at tnr.com ...
Evolution Ping.
I forgot to mention that The New Republic requires (free) registration. Sorry about that.
Well, that's a good way to kill a thread before it even gets started.
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It all depends on whether anyone in Dover, PA is interested in a career in actual science.
self ping
I am not the result of random interactions between matter and energy over time. Evolution is stupid.
"I am not the result of random interactions between matter and energy over time."
Also every particle of your body has an exact, observable position and velocity.
Heisenberg is not the issue.
Interesting that a political magazine supporting Democrats and a leftist domestic agenda would choose this topic to highlight.
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"Heisenberg is not the issue."
So you're only personally exempted from certain laws of physics, and the Heisenberg uncertainty principal isn't one of them? How about relativity?
Why is that interesting?
Nice link- thanks
Even if they somehow "prove" that man evolved from soup...they'll still have to explain who made the soup...and the ingredients for the soup....and the recipe for the soup....and why.
Most recent example, Rove on both Newsweak and Timid the same week.
New Republic is better than those two, yet it is still agenda driven.
Space is valuable and for the editors to choose to use it for any domestic issue means it is important to them and is felt to be important for the Democrat and left wing agenda for shaping US public opinion and policy in the long run.
Why is criticism of "Intelligent Design" considered important to furthering the Democrats success and the move left of this country?
Let us begin by stipulating that "Inherit the Wind" did not tell the truth about the Dayton trial, and I am not just talking about the usal Hollywood spin on a story. Bryan, for instance, opposed evolution in part because he opposed social darwinism. Because of his populism and his opposition to the war, he was already in ill favor with the Eastern Establishment. But it goes beyond that. Darrow was may "enlightened" but he was also as nasty as the Horbeck character that Gene Kelley played. Even though "Hornbeck" was supposed to be Mencken, much of what he said actually came out of Darrow's mouth at the time.
Thanks for the ping!
That's amusing on a number of levels. ID has become more prominent in the past weeks because advocates for it have stepped up their efforts to use political and legal means (rather than actual science) to advance their cause. President Bush's comments a few weeks ago also made the subject more newsworthy. Now that others are responding to this, it is they who are advancing an agenda?
This is not a left vs. right issue. Turning it into such will only be detrimental to the Republican Party.
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