Posted on 09/26/2005 1:53:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A Pennsylvania school district's use of "intelligent design" in its high school biology curriculum goes on trial in federal court today in the nation's first legal challenge to the idea, which contends that evolutionary theory alone does not explain how life on Earth took shape.
The lawsuit, brought by 11 parents in the Dover Area School District, attacks as unconstitutional the year-old policy of telling ninth-grade biology students that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution "is not a fact. Gaps in the Theory exist for which there is no evidence." School officials also recommend a book on intelligent design, or ID.
The plaintiffs, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, argue that the policy -- which does not require students to study intelligent design -- serves religious, not secular ends, violating the First Amendment.
ID proponents say scientists can look at life forms and identify the work of a controlling "intelligence," although ID advocates are not specific about the nature of that force. While they do not reject all evolutionary theory, ID proponents argue that it incorrectly insists life took shape purely through a mindless process.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Specifically, what is the difference netween the population of the US and of the ME?
Transplant either citizen to the other region, and what happens? Is it the region, or the mindset? The reason they still live in tents with sand floors and no plumbing is not because they are inferior intellectually ounce for ounce in brain matter.
It is because they have chosen for 1400 years to praise and blame all on ALLAH (inshallah), rather than investigating, inventing, capitalizing, rewarding individual and innovative thought, and not letting the religion itself be the rule of law, but a private matter between one's self and thier GOD.
Okay - put a monkey in a jar and check back in about a million years and see if it evolved into a human.
Scopes monkey trial part II........
Just part of the "Observation" mode.
HHhhhhmmmmmm.........
Stimulus - Response
Stimulus - Response
PS - my jar is already full.
Allahu Akhbar! That site rocks like a fully-loaded suicide martyr!
Gumlegs has some virgins for you - only slightly used!
Not directly, of course. The apes intervene. In fact, there's no point at all getting excited over the monkeys considering the primitive primates, early mammals, mammal-like reptiles, amphibians, fish, chordates, bilateran metazoans, and pond scum. Compared to most of that, monkeys are pretty respectable.
Whether or not you believe ID should be taught, do you actually believe the ACLU is right in saying that this is UNCONSTITUTIONAL? You can fight ID on other grounds, but a teacher telling students about a book on ID they can read on their own time does not violate the first amendment.
For the same reason half the students don't know in which century the Civil War was fought, and the same reason newspapers carry astrology columns
So, I guess you've never heard of Renew-a-Virgin? Just dip them in it and they're as good as new!
And more amazing, at least to me, about 15 years ago 60% of high school students couldn't find the Pacific Ocean on a map.
Great links. Thank you!
I thought we descended from mice. There DNA is mighty close...
Not in my family they aren't. We are humans.
I know- the evos continue to try anyway, though.
You said you weren't descended from a monkey. Just pointing out at least one gene that says you are.
Have a nice day.
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