Posted on 11/08/2005 11:05:11 PM PST by jennyp
Attn Darwin Central! Attn Darwin Central! If you're up, this should go to the pinglist.
Winning four-year seats tonight were Dover CARES candidates Bernadette Reinking (2,754 votes), Terry Emig (2,716), Herbert McIlvaine Jr. (2,677) and Bryan Rehm (2,625).
Incumbent board members seeking those seats were Sherrie Leber (2,584), James Cashman (2,526), Edward Rowand (2,547) and Alan Bonsell (2,469).
Winning two-year seats were Dover CARES candidates Lawrence Gurreri (2,623), Judy McIlvaine (2,658) and Patricia Dapp (2,670).
Incumbent board members seeking those seats were Eric Riddle (2,545), Ronald Short (2,544) and Sheila Harkins (2,466).
In a race for a separate two-year seat, Dover CARES candidate Phil Herman edged school board member David Napierskie, 2,542 votes to 2,516.
Republicans deserve to get their butts kicked when they embrace garbage like ID as "science". They're just as nutty as Democrats who want to introduce condoms in the first grade.
yes good. It doesnt belong in school, belongs at home.
PING to the ad-hoc crevo ping list. (PH has the official list.)
Wonder what excuses the ID shills will be conjuring up...
I see this is thread were people go to lose their souls...
Nothing is separating demorats and repubs. They might as well call themselves the the party of secularists.
Nextrush IIRC was trying to intimate here lately that Dover CARES was being bankrolled by the teachers' union.
I suppose they could also come up with a spin that the voters didn't want to pay the ACLU's lawyers' fees. Although I don't know if voting the old board out would change anything about that.
I dunno. Hey, creationists: Why do you think the Dover school board got thrown out en masse?
It's worse than that. We're the party of abolitionists!
While I firmly believe in evolution and see no contradictions in this belief in Christianity, it saddens me that schoolboards are not being allowed the slightest discretian in at least acknowleding that other viewpoints are out there.
Just one sentenc would put a lot of people at ease.
Evolution is about far more than just pure science, and anyone who tells you differently is full of it. Really, it's of very little consequence that one tortoise evolved from another after two populations had become isolated from one another. Useless OUTSIDE of what this tell us of who we are and where we came from.
And that is a much bigger subject and one that should not be taken lightly. It need not be discussed in a scientific classroom, but this is quite different than ionization energies.
Sure, evolution is useful in explaining viral and bacterial development, but when dealing with larger organisms, again, it's useless outside of what it tells us about the origins of "us" and life on this planet.
Heh heh heh. Go for it. It's your party, not mine.
Now that I think about it further, I think the continuing coverage of the trial by the York Daily Record & the York Dispatch probably done 'em in. Every day for the last few weeks, readers were treated to sometimes jaw-dropping mendacity by the board members. It couldn't help but embarrass them.
Intelligent design: a hypothesis.
Evolution: a theory.
Scientifically, both belong in the classroom. BUT it should be made clear that the above is the truth. In addition, neither concept has been introduced as a law, according to the scientific method. That should also be made clear.
However, the theological implications of intelligent design is largely a humanities issue and we'd be robbing children of a proper education if we didn't at least discuss them in classes that touch on theology.
*lol*
I know this is practically a one-liner, but maaaan...that's great.
Perhaps that intelligent design doesn't equate to intelligent campaigns?
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