Posted on 08/19/2005 1:02:07 PM PDT by SmithL
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Echoing similar comments from President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said "intelligent design" should be taught in public schools alongside evolution.
Frist, R-Tenn., spoke to a Rotary Club meeting Friday and told reporters afterward that students need to be exposed to different ideas, including intelligent design.
"I think today a pluralistic society should have access to a broad range of fact, of science, including faith," Frist said.
Frist, a doctor who graduated from Harvard Medical School, said exposing children to both evolution and intelligent design "doesn't force any particular theory on anyone. I think in a pluralistic society that is the fairest way to go about education and training people for the future."
The theory of intelligent design says life on earth is too complex to have developed through evolution, implying that a higher power must have had a hand in creation. Nearly all scientists dismiss it as a scientific theory, and critics say it's nothing more than religion masquerading as science.
Bush recently told a group of Texas reporters that intelligent design and evolution should both be taught in schools "so people can understand what the debate is about."
That comment sparked criticism from opponents, including Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, who called Bush "anti-science."
Frist, who is considering a presidential campaign in 2008, recently angered some conservatives by bucking Bush policy on embryonic stem cell research, voicing his support for expanded research on the subject.
Frist said his decision to endorse stem cell research was "a matter of science," but he said there was no conflict between his position on stem cell research and his position on intelligent design.
"To me, I see no disconnect between that and stem cell research," Frist said. "I base my beliefs on stem cell research both on science and my faith.
That is the first instance I've ever seen of a positive benefit from creationism.
I have been itching from an outbreak of shingles, and you have helped distract me from it.
Whatever you do, do not consult Dr. Bill Frist. It's rumored that he doesn't wash his hands from one patient to the next, because he doesn't believe in bacteria. Not scriptural, you know.
I'm afraid I might not have consulted a doctor at all, except for the local outbreak of flesh-eating bacteria that coincided with my problem.
You're wrong, and it's time to put this particular lie to rest.
Go to any major university and you will find the following:
1. A "humanities" wing full of left-wing wackos, perverts, and worse.
2. A "science/business" wing full of objective, conservative thinkers.
It is simply not accurate to paint scientists as "leftists." Some of the global warming stuff may tap into leftist causes, sure, but the majority of scientists are the most conservative persons on any given campus.
To be continually discreet, I guess one would have to be dense.
I was just being tact-ful (like the second law.)
Where are you? The Congo?
The Great God Ra, whose shrine once covered acres;
Serves now as filler, for crossword puzzle makers.
(I don't remember who originall said this.)
Thanks. I don't get to see enough scatter-brained stuff on this forum.
It's a great WTF moment. I suppose it's childish, but I really think this is going to be the one really good movie of the year, and I was curious what the reaction would be to shutting out little kids.
Suddenly, through a space/time warp, I'm back on FR.
Micro changes, letter by letter, that accumulate into a macro change (blue to green).
There are people who insist there are specific named colors in the rainbow, even though it is a uniform gradient. Goes back to the tricks our brains play in direct observation.
Who would have ever guessed; micro hue changes accumulating over time until in the aggregate they become [oh; the HORROR!] macro-color changes!!!!!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaa!
Don't sweat it, you're just not the typing type. (You aren't a taxonomist are you?)
Almost ...
Pedant!
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