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1 posted on 11/08/2005 11:05:12 PM PST by jennyp
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At least they can't make the curriculum any more one-sided. Decades of brainwashing still hasn't convinced the majority of the subjects.


77 posted on 11/09/2005 6:53:48 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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Here's John Derbyshire's latest Corner posting:

Several readers are worried (and a few gleeful) that I may be suffering from schizophrenia. On the one hand, here I am flailing away at the Intelligent Design people on NRO & by implication lining up with the ACLU meanies in the Dover trial. Meanwhile I'm getting beaten up by the academic lefties for my NRODT article--for having the temerity to suggest that human evolution is still going on.

I have LOTS to say about all this & have just agreed to do a Q&A for a conservative science website. I'll post a link to that when it goes up.

In very brief: Yes, I think science is under attack from both Left and Right. I also believe that the attack from the Left is a MUCH bigger threat--better armed, more ferocious, and international. One of the things that annoys me about the Intelligent Design people, in fact, is that they are distracting conservative scientists from the real fight, obliging them to squander their energy, while intellectual Left-fascists like the editorial writer of Science Week hold the high ground.

There is a conservative case for science, and I intend to go on making it. Intelligent Design is not a part of that case. The entire net effect of the I.D. movement is to make it harder for scientists to take conservatism seriously. These latter-day William Jennings Bryans (and that, by the way, was a man who would have socked you on the jaw if you called him a conservative) are doing nothing for conservatism.

98 posted on 11/09/2005 7:47:29 AM PST by RightWingAtheist (Free the Crevo Three!)
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Thanks, loads, cretoids. You managed to get a full slate of Democrats elected to the school board in Dover. Now you not only get evolution but revisionist history, environmentalism and loads of other liberal crap as well.


103 posted on 11/09/2005 7:57:27 AM PST by Stultis
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The Discovery Institute guy running out in Washington also lost. See here: City of Newcastle results. The contest was Dan Hubbell (winner) versus Steven Buri (the DI guy).
109 posted on 11/09/2005 8:11:57 AM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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The board was too busy ignoring constituents to address the teachers' contract?


127 posted on 11/09/2005 8:59:46 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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GOOD NEWS for a change!


135 posted on 11/09/2005 9:25:26 AM PST by Clemenza (In League with the Freemasons, The Bilderbergers, and the Learned Elders of Zion)
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ID is to biology what socialism is to economics.


216 posted on 11/09/2005 2:15:15 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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Board members Bonsell and Harkins, who had voted in favor of adding intelligent design into the ninth grade science curriculum, received the least amount of votes, with 2,469 and 2,466, respectively. Bonsell and Harkins did not return phone calls about the results Tuesday.

Gone all day, visiting, and back to find a thread with 220 replies already on the rout of stealth creationism in Dover, PA. Oh, well! I'll take good news when and where I can get it.

221 posted on 11/09/2005 3:44:36 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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