Posted on 11/08/2005 4:10:06 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel
TOPEKA, Kan.-New science standards for Kansas' public schools, criticized for promoting creationism while treating evolution as a flawed theory, won approval Tuesday from the State Board of Education.
The board's 6-4 vote, expected for months, was a victory for intelligent design advocates who helped draft the standards and argued the changes would make teaching about evolution more balanced and expose studels teach science.
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Uhhh, it's a gud thang yur nott arguin agin a straw-man or nuthin, shurloch.
Hey, they just introduced mysticism into one science class, why not chemistry?...
Sure, define everything as a miracle, and life is nothing but miracles.
That is why yours is such a sad opinion, much less existence.
Hmmm, I see you're sore about that truck I ran through your 'accelerated radioactive decay' post. Actually, it was fun; I had an intuition the numbers would come out like that, but I'd never done the calculation before, and gosh, they are impressive, eh?
Kansans have evolved.
Say NO to evilution theology.
No, no, no.... the only people who can be permitted into the hallowed halls of the scientific Hierarchy are those who accept the darwiniian dogma decisively.
Surely you know that is how knowledge advances? The very essence of education. The veritable litmus test of learning.
Spoken like someone destined to be ruled by people who actually *do* understand how things work.
If evolution is the final answer to the origin of life, then it will survive scrutiny. It will survive criticism. It will survive being questioned.
Evolution doesn't say anything about the origin of life.
In this case, I think it would be alchemy.
Actually my scientific knowledge is extensive and thorough, despite your bland claims to the contrary.
Mendel and Darwin were not the founders of the scientific revolution, you ahistorical hick.
I'm referring, of course, to the likes of Newton, Hooke, Kelvin, Linnaeus. Not that I expect you to have heard of them.
I realize that Darwisinistas think any bloviating statement they make to advance their cause is ipso facto science, but I must insist on using a more traditional standard; in other words, things are not true just because you state them or wish them to be so. I know, I know, there I go with the mysticism again...
Fine, whatever you say. However, I think you'd find an awful lot of biologists who would disagree with you.
Actually my scientific knowledge is extensive and thorough, despite your bland claims to the contrary.
Your posts here provide no evidence of this, but IDers aren't big on evidence, as I recall.
To the extent Evolution is a scientific theory, it's pretty irrelevant to everyday life anyway. Schools are dropping subject material either due to cost or to squeeze in more 'feel good' courses. There are many things that should have priority over the teaching of Evolution. No one would lose anything if it wasn't taught at all. To the extent it's used to advance a particular philosphy in the schools there is no reason it should not be critiqued. It's irrelevant if the arguments also happen to be used by ID proponents if the arguments and the questions brought up about it are valid. If the questions can't be adequately answered, this would suggest that perhaps the subject should not be taught, at least not as it is.
Ping me when the Discovery Institute actually discovers something (other than that which Barnum already knew).
Except perhaps for a hundred years' worth of scientific discovery.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
I was just about to back away from my computer when I saw this. Had to ping it out.
Freepmail me if you want on/off this pinglist.
About time!!!
I find it interesting that Freepers claim that they want both sides heard, discussed, debated, and disected but when people ask that the same standard applies in public school science classes, fair debate and discussion are suddenly verboten.
Evolution address change in life since it developed, not its origin.
And evolution has already survived 150 years of scientific scrutiny. It was being supported in all of the scientific tests, so the folks in Kansas had to change the rules of science.
This is an AP story.
And some great children's stories about things like how the giraffe got its neck, and that splendid horse evolution series, and that little gem called Piltdown Man, and those pepper moths in Manchester which evolved into ... pepper moths, and ...
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