[Pennsylvania] Gov. Rendell backs evolution

York Daily Record [Penna] ^ | 30 September 2005 | NICOLE FREHSEE

[PatrickHenry]

Yesterday's thread: Witness: 'Intelligent Design' doesn't qualify as science [Day 4 of trial in Dover, PA].

[PatrickHenry]

EvolutionPing

A pro-evolution science list with over 300 names. See the list's explanation at my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added or dropped. See what's new in The List-O-Links.

[Just mythoughts]

"Rendell "believes that (intelligent design) is more than appropriate to be taught in religion classes, but has no room in science classes in public schools," Philips said. "But this is in the court's hands now, and other than his opinion, he has no influence." "

LOL, and some claim there is no politics evolving around evolution. Make those evolutionists proud to be wearing a Rendell supports evolution Tee-shirts.

[mlc9852]

"We can do better when we let science do its job, and ask religion to do its job," former ACLU executive director Ira Glasser said Thursday, "and if there's a need for conversation, please, let's not do it in the classrooms of our children."

We certainly shouldn't have conversations in classrooms! And just knowing the ACLU is on the case makes me feel so much better!

[VadeRetro]

It shouldn't be about anything but what the preponderance of opinion in science is, but then, ID has already tried to end-run around that by appealing directly to yahoos in school boards around the country.

[PatrickHenry]

The letter-writing group has a website: The Campaign to Defend the Constitution. The Campaign’s Advisory Board includes such notable leaders as:

Bruce Alberts, former President of the National Academy of Sciences
Francisco Ayala, former President and Chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Ira Glasser, former Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
Rev. James Lawson, former President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Harold Varmus, former Director of the National Institutes of Health
Erwin Chemerinsky, Professor of Constitutional Law, Duke School of Law

[keithtoo]

So, Rendell endorses the "...Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"?

Hmmmm....wonder what his non KKK constituents think of this.

[mlc9852]

Name calling is all you have left? Yahoos? Just because people believe God created the universe and all that is in it? Sounds like what liberals resort to when they are losing.

[MineralMan]

"Name calling is all you have left? Yahoos? "

You don't think there are Yahoos on school boards? Perhaps we are thinking of two different sets of Yahoos.

Have you actually looked at the folks on your local school board? Have you ever attended a school board meeting. It's Yahoos from wall to wall, on one side or another.

[IrishBrigade]

It's very amusing...watching the evolutionists running about screeching like scalded cats because someone dares to introduce (gasp) different ideas...everybody knows, after all, that theoretical evolution closes the door on all there is to ever discuss about origins...the utter nerve of those 'yahoos'...
Where is Clarence Darrow to fight for the rights of those who are so gauche as to question the 'preponderance of opinion'?

[TheGhostOfTomPaine]

[mlc9852]

Only the opinions of those who believe in the theory of evolution count.

[mikeus_maximus]

Amazing how he's an expert on so many things.

[mlc9852]

I don't get it.

[VadeRetro]

It's very amusing...watching the evolutionists running about screeching like scalded cats because someone dares to introduce (gasp) different ideas...

Different ideas, yes. Let's put alchemy in chemistry class. The kids can figure it out for themselves. Phrenology can go somewhere. keithtoo has a nice Harun Yahyah muslim indoctrination site to sell you, while we're at it. Allahu Akhbar!

Scientific merit doesn't belong in there as a consideration at all, you're right.

[VadeRetro]

We wish to except, of course, the lovely and talented Kathy Martin of Kansas.

[MineralMan]

"I don't get it."

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[Archon of the East]

"We can do better when we let science do its job, and ask religion to do its job," former ACLU executive director Ira Glasser said Thursday, "and if there's a need for conversation, please, let's not do it in the classrooms of our children."

Regardless of how one feels specifically on the issue, This statement is moronic.

[mlc9852]

You at least haven't lost your incredible sense of humor, MineralMan. You can still make me laugh.

[BikerNYC]

Those in the dark want to put out the illuminating flame of science by hitting it with their Bible.